A New Analysis Procedure for Detecting Periodicities within Complex Solar Coronal Arcades

Abstract

We study intensity variations, as measured by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), in a solar coronal arcade using a newly developed analysis procedure that employs spatio-temporal auto-correlations. We test our new procedure by studying large-amplitude oscillations excited by nearby flaring activity within a complex arcade and detect a dominant periodicity of 12.5 minutes. We compute this period in two ways: from the traditional time-distance fitting method and using our new auto-correlation procedure. The two analyses yield consistent results. The auto-correlation procedure is then implemented on time series for which the traditional method would fail due to the complexity of overlapping loops and a poor contrast between the loops and the background. Using this new procedure, we discover the presence of small-amplitude oscillations within the same arcade with 8-minute and 10-minute periods prior and subsequent to the large-amplitude oscillations, respectively. Consequently, we identify these as "decayless" oscillations that have only been previously observed in non-flaring loop systems.

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