• DOI:10.1126/science.1168680
Corpus ID: 14522616

Alfvén Waves in the Lower Solar Atmosphere

@article{Jess2009AlfvenWI,
  title={Alfvén Waves in the Lower Solar Atmosphere},
  author={D. Jess and M. Mathioudakis and R. Erd{\'e}lyi and P. Crockett and F. Keenan and D. Christian},
  journal={Science},
  year={2009},
  volume={323},
  pages={1582 - 1585}
}

• D. Jess, M. Mathioudakis, +3 authors D. Christian
• Published 2009
• Physics, Medicine
• Science

The flow of energy through the solar atmosphere and the heating of the Sun's outer regions are still not understood. Here, we report the detection of oscillatory phenomena associated with a large bright-point group that is 430,000 square kilometers in area and located near the solar disk center. Wavelet analysis reveals full-width half-maximum oscillations with periodicities ranging from 126 to 700 seconds originating above the bright point and significance levels exceeding 99%. These… Expand