Bibcode
Asensio-Ramos, A.; Arregui, I.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 554, id.A7, 9 pp.
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2013
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Description
The analysis of quickly damped transverse oscillations of solar coronal
loops using magneto-hydrodynamic seismology allows us to infer physical
parameters that are difficult to measure otherwise. Under the assumption
that such damped oscillations are due to the resonant conversion of
global modes into Alfvén oscillations of the tube surface, we
carry out a global seismological analysis of a large set of coronal
loops. A Bayesian hierarchical method is used to obtain distributions
for coronal loop physical parameters by means of a global analysis of a
large number of observations. The resulting distributions summarize
global information and constitute data-favoured information that can be
used for the inversion of individual events. The results strongly
suggest that internal Alfvén travel times along the loop are
longer than 100 s and shorter than 540 s with 95% probability. Likewise,
the density contrast between the loop interior and the surrounding is
larger than 2.3 and below 6.9 with 95% probability.
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