Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2019
The modes of oscillation of a magnetic flux tube are explored, working from the fundamental differential equations obtained in Chapter 3. Sausage modes and kink modes (as in a magnetic slab) are investigated and their dispersion relations understood. Fluting modes also occur. Dispersion relations and diagrams, each similar to those arising in a slab, are derived and displayed, for both photospheric and coronal conditions. Leaky waves are explored. Resonant absorption in a flux tube is examined, with the decay rate obtained for a $\beta = 0$ tube. Two profiles of density across a thin layer on the boundary of the tube are explored, the linear profile and the sinusoidal profile, with decay rates obtained for both.
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