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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Okamoto, T. J.
• Tsuneta, S.
• Berger, T. E.
• Ichimoto, K.
• Katsukawa, Y.
• Lites, B. W.
• Nagata, S.
• Shibata, K.
• Shimizu, T.
• Shine, R. A.
• Suematsu, Y.
• Tarbell, T. D.
• Title, A. M.

Titel

Coronal Transverse Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in a Solar Prominence

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2007-12, Vol.318 (5856), p.1577-1580

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Science Online_科学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Solar prominences are cool 10⁴ kelvin plasma clouds supported in the surrounding 10⁶ kelvin coronal plasma by as-yet-undetermined mechanisms. Observations from Hinode show fine-scale threadlike structures oscillating in the plane of the sky with periods of several minutes. We suggest that these represent Alfvén waves propagating on coronal magnetic field lines and that these may play a role in heating the corona.