New UKSP Nugget #57

57. First direct measurements of transverse waves in solar polar plumes using SDO/AIA
by Jonathan Thurgood (Queen Mary University of London) & Richard Morton, James McLaughlin (Northumbria University)

AIA observations of kink waves in coronal holes suggest they can’t accelerate the fast solar wind.

http://uksolphys.org/?p=9933

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