Bibcode
Díaz, A. J.; Oliver, R.; Ballester, J. L.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 440, Issue 3, September IV 2005, pp.1167-1175
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2005
Journal
Citations
43
Refereed citations
39
Description
Observations of quiescent filaments show very fine structures which
suggests that they can be composed of small-scale threads or fibrils.
Two-dimensional, high-resolution observations point out that individual
fibrils or groups of fibrils may oscillate independently with their own
periods. In this paper, we study the fast magnetohydrodynamic modes of
oscillation of multifibril Cartesian systems to represent the
oscillations of the fibril structure of a real prominence. In the case
of a system made of equal fibrils, our results show that the only
non-leaky mode is the symmetric one, which means that all the fibrils
oscillate in spatial phase with the same frequency. On the other hand,
in a system made of non-equal fibrils, i.e. with different Alfvén
speeds, the results show that the amplitudes of oscillation are higher
in the denser fibrils, that the frequency of oscillation of the only
non-leaky mode is slightly smaller than that of the dominant fibril
considered alone, and that all the fibrils also oscillate in phase.