Wave energy has long been proposed to be a source of the hot solar corona and fast solar wind. Direct measurements made by spacecraft have finally established that coronal waves are ubiquitous and can have the required energy. See Letter p.477
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Cargill, P., De Moortel, I. Waves galore. Nature 475, 463–464 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/475463a
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