Dear loop enthusiasts,
I've presented at the last coronal loops workshop the discovery of periodic coronal rain associated with periodic EUV pulsations of coronal loops. For those of you interested, the corresponding paper has now been published in ApJ:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...853..176A
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01852
These new observations demonstrate that coronal rain and EUV pulsations are simply two manifestations of the same physical process: evaporation / condensation cycles resulting from a state of thermal nonequilibrium induced by quasi-constant and stratified heating. This confirms Clara's initial conclusions on the nature of these long-period EUV pulsations (Froment et al. 2015, 2017).
Share & enjoy,
Frédéric