Astron. Astrophys. 355, L23-L26 (2000)

Letter to the Editor

Observation of oscillations in coronal loops

I. De Moortel ¹, J. Ireland ² and R.W. Walsh <sup>1

1</sup> University of St Andrews, School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland
² ESA at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Room G-1, Building 26, Mail Code 682.3, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA

Received 15 December 1999 / Accepted 28 January 2000

Abstract

On March 23rd 1999, a set of TRACE observations in the 171 Å (FeIX ) bandpass was made of active region AR 8496. A wavelet analysis of a bright loop-footpoint to the south west of this active region displays outward propagating perturbations with periods 180-420 seconds at approximately 70-165 km s^-1. We suggest that these oscillations are slow magneto-acoustic waves propagating along the loop, carrying an estimated energy flux of ergs cm^-2 s^-1.

Key words: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Sun: activity Sun: corona Sun: oscillations

Send offprint requests to: ineke@mcs.st-and.ac.uk

This article contains no SIMBAD objects.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Observations
• 3. Analysis and results
  • 3.1. Wavelet analysis
• 4. Discussion
• 5. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• References

© European Southern Observatory (ESO) 2000

Online publication: March 9, 2000
helpdesk.link@springer.de