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SOLAR PHYSICS
Volume 246, Issue 1, Pages 213-230Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-007-9041-3
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magnetohydrodynamics; waves; propagation; coronal seismology
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The theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in solar coronal slabs in a zero-beta configuration and for parallel propagation of waves does not allow the existence of surface waves. When oblique propagation of perturbations is considered, both surface and body waves are able to propagate. When the perpendicular wavenumber is larger than a certain value, the body kink mode becomes a surface wave. In addition, a sausage surface mode is found below the internal cutoff frequency. When nonuniformity in the equilibrium is included, surface and body modes are damped by resonant absorption. In this paper, first, a normal-mode analysis is performed and the period, the damping rate, and the spatial structure of the eigenfunctions are obtained. Then, the time-dependent problem is solved, and the conditions under which one or the other type of mode is excited are investigated.
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