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The processes of coronal plasma heating and cooling were previously shown to significantly affect the dynamics of slow magnetoacoustic (MA) waves, causing amplification or attenuation, and also dispersion. However, the entropy mode is also excited in such a thermodynamically active plasma and is affected by the heating/cooling misbalance too. This mode is usually associated with the phenomenon of coronal rain and formation of prominences. Unlike adiabatic plasmas, the properties and evolution of slow MA and entropy waves in continuously heated and cooling plasmas get mixed. Different regimes of the misbalance lead to a variety of scenarios for the initial perturbation to evolve. In order to describe properties and evolution of slow MA and entropy waves in various regimes of the misbalance, we obtained an exact analytical solution of the linear evolutionary equation. Using the characteristic timescales and the obtained exact solution, we identified regimes with qualitatively different behaviour of slow MA and entropy modes. For some of those regimes, the spatio-temporal evolution of the initial Gaussian pulse is shown. In particular, it is shown that slow MA modes may have a range of non-propagating harmonics. In this regime, perturbations caused by slow MA and entropy modes in a low-\(\beta \) plasma would look identical in observations, as non-propagating disturbances of the plasma density (and temperature) either growing or decaying with time. We also showed that the partition of the initial energy between slow MA and entropy modes depends on the properties of the heating and cooling processes involved. The exact analytical solution obtained could be further applied to the interpretation of observations and results of numerical modelling of slow MA waves in the corona and the formation and evolution of coronal rain.
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The work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation by State assignment to educational and research institutions under Projects No. FSSS-2020-0014, 0023-2019-0003, and by Subsidy No.075-GZ/C3569/278. D.Y. Kolotkov acknowledges support from the STFC consolidated grant ST/T000252/1.
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Zavershinskii, D., Kolotkov, D., Riashchikov, D. et al. Mixed Properties of Slow Magnetoacoustic and Entropy Waves in a Plasma with Heating/Cooling Misbalance. Sol Phys 296, 96 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-021-01841-1
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