| Issue |
EAS Publications Series
Volume 55, 2012
4th French-Chinese Meeting on Solar Physics - Understanding Solar Activity: Advances and Challenges
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| Page(s) | 313 - 320 | |
| Section | CMEs and Space Weather | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1255043 | |
| Published online | 27 June 2012 | |
M. Faurobert, C. Fang and T. Corbard (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 55 (2012) 313-320
A Converging View on EIT Waves
1
School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing
University, Nanjing,
China
e-mail: chenpf@nju.edu.cn
2
Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nanjing,
University, China
Coronal “EIT wave” is a large-scale wavelike phenomenon propagating across the major part of the Sun. Debates are being continued regarding a more suitable name for it, its source driver, and its nature. “EIT waves” have been widely explained in terms of fast-mode waves, despite that the model contradicts with many observational features. Two-types of EUV waves were predicted 10 years ago. With the recent high-cadence observations, mainly from SDO/AIA telescope, more and more evidence has been revealed in favor of the two-wave model. In this paper, after summarizing different names used for EIT waves in the literature, we show how the community are getting close to reaching a consensus on the nature of EIT waves.
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