Comparison of Exact and Approximate MHD Slow Body Mode Solutions in Photospheric Waveguides

Abstract

In this study, we explore the possibility of simplifying the modeling of magnetohydrodynamic slow body modes observed in photospheric magnetic structures such as the umbrae of sunspots and pores. The simplifying approach assumes that the variation of the eigenvalues of slow body waves can be derived by imposing that the longitudinal component of velocity with respect to the tube axis is zero at the boundary of the magnetic flux tube, which is in good agreement with observations. To justify our approach, we compare the results of our simplified model for slow body modes in cylindrical flux tubes with the model prediction obtained by imposing the continuity of the radial component of the velocity and total pressure at the boundary of the flux tube. Our results show that, to a high accuracy (less than 1% for the considered model), the conditions of continuity of the component of transversal velocity and pressure at the boundary can be neglected when modeling slow body modes under photospheric conditions.