Poster

Kink oscillations of coronal loops
OscSun
David Pascoe
University of Warwick
Observations have revealed that standing and propagating kink oscillations are ubiquitous in the solar corona, providing the opportunity to use these oscillations as a seismological tool. We perform numerical simulations of transverse waves propagating in a low beta plasma. When density structuring is present, kink and Alfvén modes become coupled in inhomogeneous regions. The frequency-dependent decay of propagating kink waves is observed as energy is transferred to the local Alfvén mode. We also consider mechanisms for generating standing transverse oscillations.

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