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QUASI-PERIODIC FAST-MODE WAVE TRAINS WITHIN A GLOBAL EUV WAVE AND SEQUENTIAL TRANSVERSE OSCILLATIONS DETECTED BY SDO/AIA

Journal

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 753, Issue 1, Pages -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/753/1/52

Keywords

Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: flares; Sun: oscillations; waves

Funding

  1. NASA SDO/AIA [NNG04EA00C]
  2. NASA [NNX11AO68G, NNX09AG10G]
  3. NASA [139800, NNX09AG10G, 118223, NNX11AO68G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER

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We present the first unambiguous detection of quasi-periodic wave trains within the broad pulse of a global EUV wave (so-called EIT wave) occurring on the limb. These wave trains, running ahead of the lateral coronal mass ejection (CME) front of 2-4 times slower, coherently travel to distances greater than or similar to R-circle dot/2 along the solar surface, with initial velocities up to 1400 km s(-1) decelerating to similar to 650 km s(-1). The rapid expansion of the CME initiated at an elevated height of 110 Mm produces a strong downward and lateral compression, which may play an important role in driving the primary EUV wave and shaping its front forwardly inclined toward the solar surface. The wave trains have a dominant 2 minute periodicity that matches the X-ray flare pulsations, suggesting a causal connection. The arrival of the leading EUV wave front at increasing distances produces an uninterrupted chain sequence of deflections and/or transverse (likely fast kink mode) oscillations of local structures, including a flux-rope coronal cavity and its embedded filament with delayed onsets consistent with the wave travel time at an elevated (by similar to 50%) velocity within it. This suggests that the EUV wave penetrates through a topological separatrix surface into the cavity, unexpected from CME-caused magnetic reconfiguration. These observations, when taken together, provide compelling evidence of the fast-mode MHD wave nature of the primary (outer) fast component of a global EUV wave, running ahead of the secondary (inner) slow component of CME-caused restructuring.

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