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astro-ph.SR2023★ 23 cited

The Role of High-frequency Transverse Oscillations in Coronal Heating

Daye Lim, Tom Van Doorsselaere, David Berghmans +3

Transverse oscillations that do not show significant damping in solar coronal loops are found to be ubiquitous. Recently, the discovery of high-frequency transverse oscillations in…

astro-ph.SR2022

Alfvénic waves in the inhomogeneous solar atmosphere

R. J. Morton, R. Sharma, E. Tajfirouze +1

The solar atmosphere is known to be replete with magneto-hydrodynamic wave modes, and there has been significant investment in understanding how these waves propagate through the S…

astro-ph.SR2022

Parallel plasma loops and the energization of the solar corona

Hardi Peter, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, Feng Chen +15

The outer atmosphere of the Sun is composed of plasma heated to temperatures well in excess of the visible surface. We investigate short cool and warm (<1 MK) loops seen in the cor…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 15 cited

A statistical study of propagating MHD kink waves in the quiescent corona

Ajay K. Tiwari, Richard J. Morton, James A. McLaughlin

The Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) has opened up exciting opportunities to probe transverse MHD waves in the Sun's corona. The archive of CoMP data is utilised to generat…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 30 cited

Weak damping of propagating MHD kink waves in the quiescent corona

Richard J. Morton, Ajay K. Tiwari, Tom Van Doorsselaere +1

Propagating transverse waves are thought to be a key transporter of Poynting flux throughout the Sun's atmosphere. Recent studies have shown that these transverse motions, interpre…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 112 cited

The Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan: translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action

I. Zouganelis, A. De Groof, A. P. Walsh +182

Solar Orbiter is the first space mission observing the solar plasma both in situ and remotely, from a close distance, in and out of the ecliptic. The ultimate goal is to understand…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 18 cited

Effect of Coronal Loop Structure on Wave Heating by Phase Mixing

P. Pagano, I. De Moortel, R. J. Morton

The mechanism behind coronal heating still elude direct observation and modelling of viable theoretical processes and the subsequent effect on coronal structures is one of the key…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 110 cited

Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)

Mark P. Rast, Nazaret Bello González, Luis Bellot Rubio +84

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) will revolutionize our ability to measure, understand and model the basic physical processes that control the structure and dynamics of…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 70 cited

Mapping the magnetic field in the solar corona through magnetoseismology

Zihao Yang, Hui Tian, Steven Tomczyk +4

Magnetoseismology, a technique of magnetic field diagnostics based on observations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, has been widely used to estimate the field strengths of oscil…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 175 cited

Global maps of the magnetic field in the solar corona

Zihao Yang, Christian Bethge, Hui Tian +10

Understanding many physical processes in the solar atmosphere requires determination of the magnetic field in each atmospheric layer. However, direct measurements of the magnetic f…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 27 cited

The drivers of active region outflows into the slow solar wind

David H. Brooks, Amy R. Winebarger, Sabrina Savage +13

Plasma outflows from the edges of active regions have been suggested as a possible source of the slow solar wind. Spectroscopic measurements show that these outflows have an enhanc…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 52 cited

Is the High-Resolution Coronal Imager Resolving Coronal Strands? Results from AR 12712

Thomas Williams, Robert W. Walsh, Amy R. Winebarger +14

Following the success of the first mission, the High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) was launched for a third time (Hi-C 2.1) on 29th May 2018 from the White Sands Missile Range,…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 56 cited

Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Jetlet-like Events at Edges of Solar Magnetic Network Lane

Navdeep K. Panesar, Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore +15

We present high-resolution, high-cadence observations of six, fine-scale, on-disk jet-like events observed by the High-resolution Coronal Imager 2.1 (Hi-C 2.1) during its sounding-…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 61 cited

Fine-scale explosive energy release at sites of prospective magnetic flux cancellation in the core of the solar active region observed by Hi-C 2.1, IRIS and SDO

Sanjiv K. Tiwari, Navdeep K. Panesar, Ronald L. Moore +14

The second Hi-C flight (Hi-C2.1) provided unprecedentedly-high spatial and temporal resolution (250km, 4.4s) coronal EUV images of Fe IX/X emission at 172 Å, of AR 12712 on 2…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 69 cited

The High-Resolution Coronal Imager, Flight 2.1

Laurel A. Rachmeler, Amy R. Winebarger, Sabrina L. Savage +49

The third flight of the High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C 2.1) occurred on May 29, 2018, the Sounding Rocket was launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The instr…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 49 cited

Investigating `dark' energy in the solar corona using forward modeling of MHD waves

Vaibhav Pant, Norbert Magyar, Tom Van Doorsselaere +1

It is now well established that the Alfvénic waves are ubiquitous in the solar corona. However, the Alfvénic wave energy estimated from the Doppler velocity measurements in the cor…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 32 cited

Damping of Propagating Kink Waves in the Solar Corona

Ajay K. Tiwari, Richard J. Morton, Stephane Régnier +1

Alfvénic waves have gained renewed interest since the existence of ubiquitous propagating kink waves were discovered in the corona. {It has long been suggested that Alfvénic} waves…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 100 cited

A basal contribution from p-modes to the Alfvénic wave flux in the Sun's corona

R. J. Morton, M. Weberg, J. A. McLaughlin

Many cool stars possess complex magnetic fields [1] that are considered to undertake a central role in the structuring and energising of their atmospheres [2]. Alfvénic waves are t…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 37 cited

An Automated Algorithm for Identifying and Tracking Transverse Waves in Solar Images

Micah J. Weberg, Richard J. Morton, James A. McLaughlin

Recent instrumentation has demonstrated that the solar atmosphere supports omnipresent transverse waves, which could play a key role in energizing the solar corona. Large-scale stu…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 76 cited

Photospheric observations of surface and body modes in solar magnetic pores

Peter H. Keys, Richard J. Morton, David B. Jess +8

Over the past number of years, great strides have been made in identifying the various low-order magnetohydrodynamic wave modes observable in a number of magnetic structures found…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 9 cited

Observational signatures of a kink-unstable coronal flux rope using Hinode/EIS

Ben Snow, Gert J. J. Botha, Stephane Regnier +3

The signatures of energy release and energy transport for a kink-unstable coronal flux rope are investigated via forward modelling. Synthetic intensity and Doppler maps are generat…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 57 cited

Measuring the magnetic field of a trans-equatorial loop system using coronal seismology

David M. Long, Gherardo Valori, David Pérez-Suárez +2

"EIT waves" are freely-propagating global pulses in the low corona which are strongly associated with the initial evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). They are thought to be…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 54 cited

On the properties of slow mhd sausage waves within small-scale photospheric magnetic structures

N. Freij, I. Dorotovic, R. J. Morton +3

The presence of magneto-acoustic waves in magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere is well-documented. Applying the technique of solar magneto-seismology (SMS) allows us to infe…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 106 cited

First direct measurements of transverse waves in solar polar plumes using SDO/AIA

J. O. Thurgood, R. J Morton, J. A. McLaughlin

There is intense interest in determining the precise contribution of Alfvénic waves propagating along solar structures to the problems of coronal heating and solar wind acceleratio…