Bibcode
DOI
Terradas, J.; Arregui, I.; Oliver, R.; Ballester, J. L.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 678, Issue 2, pp. L153-L156.
Fecha de publicación:
5
2008
Revista
Número de citas
66
Número de citas referidas
58
Descripción
Recent observations with the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope display an
active region prominence whose fine threads oscillate in the vertical
direction as they move along a path parallel to the photosphere. A
seismological analysis of this event is carried out by taking advantage
of the small radius of these structures compared to the total length of
magnetic field lines, i.e., by using the thin-tube approximation. This
analysis reveals that the oscillatory period is only slightly modified
by the existence of the flow and that the difference between the period
of a flowing thread and a static one is below the error bars of these
observations. Moreover, although it is not possible to obtain values of
the physical parameters, a lower bound for the Alfvén speed
(ranging between 120 and 350 km s-1) is obtained for each of
the threads. Such Alfvén speeds agree with the intense magnetic
fields and large densities usually found in active region prominences.