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Slow magnetoacoustic waves observed in the solar corona are used as seismological probes of plasma parameters. It has been shown that the dispersion properties of such waves can vary significantly under the influence of the wave-induced thermal misbalance. In the current research, we study the effect of misbalance on waves inside the magnetic-flux tube under the second-order thin-flux-tube approximation. Using the parameters of active-region-fan coronal loops, we calculated wave properties such as the phase speed and decrement. It is shown that neglecting thermal misbalance may be the reason for the substantial divergence between seismological and spectrometric estimations of plasma parameters. We also show that the frequency dependence of the phase speed is affected by two features, namely the geometric dispersion and the dispersion caused by the thermal misbalance. In contrast to the phase speed, the wave decrement primarily is affected by the thermal misbalance only. The dependencies of the phase speed and decrement of the slow wave on the magnetic field and tube cross-section are also analysed.
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The study was supported in part by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia by State assignment to educational and research institutions under Project No. FSSS-2020-0014 and No. 0023-2019-0003, and by RFBR, project number 20-32-90018. CHIANTI is a collaborative project involving George Mason University, the University of Michigan (USA), University of Cambridge (UK), and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (USA).
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Belov, S.A., Molevich, N.E. & Zavershinskii, D.I. Dispersion of Slow Magnetoacoustic Waves in the Active Region Fan Loops Introduced by Thermal Misbalance. Sol Phys 296, 122 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-021-01868-4
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