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Waves galore

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Wave energy has long been proposed to be a source of the hot solar corona and fast solar wind. Direct measurements made by spacecraft have finally established that coronal waves are ubiquitous and can have the required energy. See Letter p.477

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Figure 1: The solar corona as seen in emission at 171 ångströms.

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Figure 2: Alfvén waves in two coronal geometries.

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  1. Peter Cargill is at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, UK, and at the School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, UK.,

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  2. Ineke De Moortel is at the School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of St Andrews.,

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