On the 5-Minute Oscillations of Photospheric and Chromospheric Swirls
arXiv:2304.07970 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202245373
Abstract
Swirls are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. They are believed to be related to the excitation of different modes of magnetohydrodynamic waves and pulses, as well as spicules. However, statistical studies of their collective behaviour are rare. In this paper, we aim to study the collective, as well as the behaviour of individual photospheric and chromospheric swirls detected by the automated swirl detection algorithm (ASDA) from observations obtained by the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope and the Hinode satellite. Detailed analysis of six different parameters of photospheric and chromospheric swirls is performed employing the wavelet analysis. Two clusters of periods with significant wavelet power, one from minutes and the other from minutes, have been found. The former coincides with the dominant period of the global -mode spectrum. Wavelet and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis of example swirls also reveals similar periods. These results suggest that global -modes might be important for triggering photospheric and thus chromospheric swirls. A novel scenario of global -modes providing energy and mass fluxes to the upper solar atmosphere via generating swirls, Alfvén pulses and spicules is then proposed.
arXiv comment8 figures and 3 tables, to be published in A&A
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