Abstract:
Srivastava et al. (2010) have observed a highly twisted coronal loop, which was anchored in AR10960 during the period 04:43 UT-
04:52 UT on 4 June 2007. The loop length and radius are approximately 80 Mm and 4 Mm, with a twist of 11.5 π. These observations are
used as initial conditions in a three dimensional nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic simulation with parallel thermal conduction included.
The initial unstable equilibrium evolves into the kink instability, from which synthetic observables are generated for various high-tem-
perature filters of SDO/AIA. These observables include temporal and spatial averaging to account for the resolution and exposure times
of SDO/AIA images. Using the simulation results, we describe the implications of coronal kink instability as observables in SDO/AIA
filters.
