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6 - Magnetic Flux Tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2019

Bernard Roberts
Bernard Roberts
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University of St Andrews, Scotland
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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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magnetic flux tubesdispersion relationssausage modeskink modesfluting modeslow beta plasmaresonant absorption
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MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere , pp. 139 - 181
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Magnetic Flux Tubes
  • Bernard Roberts, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book: MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere
  • Online publication: 15 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108613774.007
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  • Magnetic Flux Tubes
  • Bernard Roberts, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book: MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere
  • Online publication: 15 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108613774.007
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  • Magnetic Flux Tubes
  • Bernard Roberts, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book: MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere
  • Online publication: 15 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108613774.007
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