Space Science Reviews - Oscillatory Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae

New Topical Collection published in Space Science Reviews

05 April 2022

In 2019, the solar physics research community celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first detection of oscillatory processes in the solar corona as a quasi-periodic pulsation (QPP) of an X-ray and radio emission produced by a solar flare.

Free access until 11 May 2022: "Oscillatory Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae" (this opens in a new tab), edited by Valery M. Nakariakov, Dipankar Banerjee, Bo Li, Tongjiang Wang, Ivan Zimovets and Maurizio Falanga

The International Space Science Institute in Beijing (ISSI-BJ) hosted a one week international workshop “Oscillatory Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae” on 14–19 October 2019. This event was attended by more than forty specialists from more than ten countries.

Outcomes of the workshop resulted in this Topical Collection (this opens in a new tab) which consists of seven comprehensive review papers. The reviews cover cutting-edge recent results obtained on the analysis and theoretical modelling of several most intensively studied coronal MHD wave phenomena, namely, kink and sausage oscillations, and running and standing slow waves. A dedicated review assesses the consistency of proposed theoretical mechanisms for heating of the coronal plasma by various MHD waves. Another review summarises the current state of the physical mechanisms and observational properties of QPPs in solar flares and considers their analogy with QPPs in stellar flares. An important discussion of novel data analysis techniques designed recently for MHD seismology applications is subject to a special paper. 
 

Please, start reading the introductory article: 
Nakariakov, V.M., Banerjee, D., Li, B. et al. Editorial to the Topical Collection: Oscillatory Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae (this opens in a new tab). Space Sci Rev 218, 13 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-022-00888-1