期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 707, 期 1, 页码 662-670出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/662
关键词
Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: oscillations; Sun: prominences
资金
- Spanish MICINN
- FEDER funds
- Conselleria d'Economia
- Hisenda i Innovacio of the CAIB [AYA2006-07637, PCTIB-2005GC3-03]
- CAIB
Transverse oscillations of solar filament and prominence threads have been frequently reported. These oscillations have the common features of being of short period (2-10 minutes) and being damped after a few periods. The observations are interpreted as kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave modes, whereas resonant absorption in the Alfven continuum and ion-neutral collisions are candidates to be the damping mechanisms. Here, we study both analytically and numerically the time damping of kink MHD waves in a cylindrical, partially ionized filament thread embedded in a coronal environment. The thread model is composed of a straight and thin, homogeneous filament plasma, with a transverse inhomogeneous transitional layer where the plasma physical properties vary continuously from filament to coronal conditions. The magnetic field is homogeneous and parallel to the thread axis. We find that the kink mode is efficiently damped by resonant absorption for typical wavelengths of filament oscillations, the damping times being compatible with the observations. Partial ionization does not affect the process of resonant absorption, and the filament plasma ionization degree is only important for the damping for wavelengths much shorter than those observed. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the phenomenon of resonant absorption is studied in a partially ionized plasma.
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