Coronal MHD perturbation field generated by localized perturbers in a photospheric active region

Abstract

We investigate the two-dimensional boundary value problem of the linear wave excitation in the solar corona by a pair of periodic perturbers localized at the photosphere. The physical properties of the corona allow us to consider a magnetic configuration such as a potential arcade which is in a magneto-hydrostatic equilibrium with the surrounding plasma. The model excludes the A1fvén mode and since the slow mode is absent in a potential arcade, the excited waves are then the fast magneto-acoustic modes. The characteristic magnetic field scale length is twice the scale height of the coronal plasma, assumed isothermal and the induced fluid motions are in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field, in the cross-sectional plane of the arcade.

A particular example of two localized perturbers in a photospheric active region is given, pointing out the effects produced in the perturbed fields by the variation of the different parameters involved. Such example shows that, while a modification of the linear size or the horizontal wave number of the perturbers does not affect significantly the propagating disturbances, the variation of the perturbers' frequency produces important effects. Such effects can be summarized by saying that low-frequency perturbers are able to disturb the whole coronal magnetic configuration above the active region while high-frequency perturbers only disturb the coronal region just above them, producing a channeling feature. Moreover, for high frequencies the perturbations grow withz all the way from the photosphere while for very low frequencies evanescent waves are dominant, although thanks to the influence of the medium their amplitude starts to grow from somez on.