Alfvén waves in the lower solar atmosphere

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5921, 2009, Pages 1582-1585

  Jess, David B ^a,b   Mathioudakis, Mihalis ^a   Erdélyi, Robert ^c   Crockett, Philip J ^a   Keenan, Francis P ^a   Christian, Damian J ^d  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; CORONA; DETECTION METHOD; ENERGY FLOW; HEATING; OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; WAVELET;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; OSCILLATION; POLARIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 62849111764     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168680     Document Type: Article

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30. D.B.J. is supported by a Northern Ireland Department for Employment and Learning studentship and thanks NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for a Co-operative Award in Science and Technology studentship. R.E. thanks M. Kéray for encouragement and is grateful to NSF, Hungary (Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alapprogram, ref. no. K67746), for financial support. F.P.K. is grateful to the Atomic Weapons Establishment-Aldermaston for the award of a William Penney Fellowship. The SST is operated on the island of La Palma by the Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. These observations have been funded by the Optical Infrared Coordination network, an international collaboration supported by the Research Infrastructures Programme of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. This work is supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, and we thank L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort for help with MOMFBD image processing.