Wave Generation and Propagation in the Solar Atmosphere.ppt

Solar Flux Tube Oscillations Longitudinal tube waves Transverse tube waves Theoretical Predictions Solar Chromosphere: 170 – 190 s (non-magnetic regions) 150 – 230 s (magnetic regions Maximum amplitudes are 0.3 km/s Solar Atmospheric Oscillations Solar Chromosphere: 100 – 250 s Solar Transition Region: 200 – 400 s Solar Corona: 2 – 600 s TRACE and SOHO Lamb’s Original Approach (1908) Acoustic wave propagation in a stratified and isothermal medium is described by the following wave equation With , one obtains where is the acoustic cutoff frequency Klein-Gordon equation A New Method to Determine Cutoffs i = 1, 2, 3 General form of acoustic wave equation in a medium with gradients: Transformations: and with give Using the oscillation theorem and Euler’s equation allow finding the acoustic cutoff frequency! Musielak, Musielak Mobashi Phys. Rev. (2006) The Oscillation Theorem Consider with periodic solutions Another equation If for all x then the solutions of the second equation are also periodic Euler’s Equation and Its Turning Point Periodic solutions Turning point Evanescent solutions Applications of the Method Cutoff frequencies for acoustic and magnetic flux tube waves propagating in the solar chromosphere Collaborator: Reiner Hammer Graduate Students: Hanna Mobashi, Shilpa Subramaniam and Swati Routh Torsional Tube Waves I Introducing and Isothermal and ‘wide’ magnetic flux tubes , we have and x and y are Hollweg’s variables Torsional Tube Waves II Using the method, we obtain and where Torsional Tube Waves III Eliminating the first derivatives, we obtain Klein-Gordon equations and where and Torsional Tube Waves IV Making Fourier transforms in time, the Klein-Gordon equations become and Using Euler’s equation and the oscillation theorem, the turning-point frequencies can be determined. The largest turning-point frequency becomes the local cutoff frequenc