Once more: Leaky MHD waves in coronal magnetic flux tubes
Hans Goedbloed, Rony Keppens
astro-ph.SR, math-ph, physics.plasm-ph
Submitted: 2026-06-18
Comments: accepted for JPP, to appear
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: By a detailed comparison of leaky magnetohydrodynamic waves in coronal magnetic flux tubes with leaky electromagnetic waves in dielectric media it is shown that the latter kind may be called
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Abstract
By a detailed comparison of leaky magnetohydrodynamic waves in coronal magnetic flux tubes with leaky electromagnetic waves in dielectric media it is shown that the latter kind may be called quasi-normal modes, since they can be regularised by a normalisation which systematically cuts off the contribution of the external homogeneous region, whereas such a possibility is forbidden for the former kind by the conservation of magnetic flux. Consequently, leaky magnetohydrodynamic waves cannot be systematically applied to coronal seismology, i.e. to the inverse spectral problem of determining the different equilibrium distributions of the fields by comparing the spectra they produce with the observed ones.
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