On the nature of propagating MHD waves in polar coronal hole
Girjesh R. Gupta and Dipankar Banerjee

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore
E-mail: girjesh@iiap.res.in

Abstract. Waves play an important role in the heating of the solar corona and in the acceleration of the fast solar wind from polar Coronal Holes (pCHs). Recently using EIS/Hinode and SUMER/SOHO, we have reported the presence of accelerating waves in polar region (Gupta et al. 2010, ApJ, 718, 11). These waves appeared to be originating from a bright location on-disk, presumably the footprint of the coronal funnels. These waves were interpreted in terms of either propagating Alfven waves or fast magneto-acoustic waves. The new sets of observations are obtained from the EIS/Hinode 2'' slit and imaging data from AIA/SDO in various filters over plume and inter-plume regions as HOP175 programme. The combination of spectroscopic and imaging data will provide further details on mode identification and properties of these waves and will help in the energy calculations. In this presentation, preliminary results obtained from these observations in terms of different nature of propagating waves in plume and inter-plume regions and energy carried by these waves will be presented.