Letter to the Editor

Propagating EUV disturbances in the Solar corona: Two-wavelength observations

¹ Physics Department, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK e-mail: kingd@astro.warwick.ac.uk; valery@astro.warwick.ac.uk
² Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA02138, USA e-mail: deluca@head-cfa.harvard.edu
³ UKAEA Culham Division, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB, USA e-mail: k.g.mcclements@ukaea.org.uk

Corresponding author: D. B. King, kingd@astro.warwick.ac.uk

Received: 23 January 2003
Accepted: 19 March 2003

Abstract

Quasi-periodic EUV disturbances simultaneously observed in 171 Å and 195 Å TRACE bandpasses propagating outwardly in a fan-like magnetic structure of a coronal active region are analysed. Time series of disturbances observed in the different bandpasses have a relatively high correlation coefficient (up to about 0.7). The correlation has a tendency to decrease with distance along the structure: this is consistent with an interpretation of the disturbances in terms of parallel-propagating slow magnetoacoustic waves. The wavelet analysis does not show a significant difference between waves observed in different bandpasses. Periodic patterns of two distinct periods: 2–3 min and 5–8 min are detected in both bandpasses, existing simultaneously and at the same distance along the loop, suggesting the nonlinear generation of the second harmonics.