• Question: What was the wave did you find that no one else had?

    Asked by Mia&Rydon(RIA) to Tim on 5 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Tim Duckenfield

      Tim Duckenfield answered on 5 Mar 2018:

      Brace yourself… it’s “the second harmonic of decay-less kink oscillations in the solar corona”. Here is a link to my paper! http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/abs/2018ApJ…854L…5D

      Basically, imagine holding a slinky, and wobbling one end. You see a wave happens, which has one peak. Now if you wobble it twice as fast, it forms two peaks. That’s the kind of wave I found – the coronal loop (loop seen on the surface of the Sun) wobbles sideways, and does is so fast it forms two peaks 🙂

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