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Heating and cooling in transversely oscillating coronal loops powered by broadband, multi-directional wave drivers

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Date
29/01/2023
Author
Howson, Thomas
De Moortel, Ineke
Funder
Science & Technology Facilities Council
Grant ID
ST/W001195/1
Keywords
Solar corona
MHD (magnetohydrodynamics) oscillations
Wave heating
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
T-DAS
MCC
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Abstract
Recent studies have identified the potential for coronal wave heating to balance radiative losses in a transversely oscillating low-density loop undergoing resonant absorption, phase mixing and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. This result relied on a continuous, resonant oscillatory driver acting on one of the loop footpoints and similar setups with non-resonant driving produce insufficient heating. Here, we consider broadband and multi-directional drivers with power in both resonant and non-resonant frequencies. Using three dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we impose transverse, continuous velocity drivers at the footpoints of a coronal loop which is dense in comparison to the background plasma. We include the effects of optically thin radiation and a uniform background heating term which maintains the temperature of the external plasma but is insufficient to balance energy losses within the loop. For both broadband and multi-directional drivers, we find that the energy dissipation rates are sufficient to balance the average energy losses throughout the simulation volume. Resonant components of the wave driver efficiently inject energy into the system and these frequencies dominate the energetics. Although the mean radiative losses are balanced, the loop core cools in all cases as the wave heating rates are locally insufficient, despite the relatively low density considered here.
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Howson , T & De Moortel , I 2023 , ' Heating and cooling in transversely oscillating coronal loops powered by broadband, multi-directional wave drivers ' , Physics , vol. 5 , no. 1 , pp. 140-160 . https://doi.org/10.3390/physics5010011
Publication
Physics
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/physics5010011
ISSN
2624-8174
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Funding: The research leading to these results has received funding from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (consolidated grants ST/S000402/1 and ST/W001195/1). IDM received funding from the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence scheme, project number 262622.
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URL
https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/5/1/11
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26850

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