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Recent observations by Hinode/SOT show that MHD waves and mass flows are simultaneously present in the fine structure of solar prominences. We investigate standing kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in flowing prominence threads from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Roberto Soler , Marcel Goossens

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) routinely observes magnetic field deflections in the solar wind at distances less than 0.3 au from the Sun. These deflections are related to structures commonly called 'switchbacks' (SBs), whose origins and…

The formation and evolution process and magnetic configuration of solar prominences remain unclear. In order to study the formation process of prominences, we examine continuous observations of a prominence in NOAA AR 10953 with the Solar…

Observations of stellar prominences on young rapidly rotating stars provide unique probes of their magnetic fields out to many stellar radii. We compare two independently obtained datasets of the K3 dwarf Speedy Mic using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. J. Dunstone , A. Collier Cameron , J. R. Barnes , M. Jardine

Prominence threads are very long and thin flux tubes which are partially filled with cold plasma. Observations have shown that transverse oscillations are frequent in these solar structures. The observations are usually interpreted as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Elena Khomenko

This review paper outlines background information and covers recent advances made via the analysis of spectra and images of prominence plasma and the increased sophistication of non-LTE (ie when there is a departure from Local Thermodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 N. Labrosse , P. Heinzel , J. -C. Vial , T. Kucera , S. Parenti , S. Gunar , B. Schmieder , G. Kilper

Quiescent solar prominence fine structures are typically modelled as density enhancements, called threads, which occupy a fraction of a longer magnetic flux tube. The profile of the mass density along the magnetic field is however unknown…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 I. Arregui , R. Soler

We analyse the oscillatory properties of resonantly damped transverse kink oscillations in two-dimensional prominence threads. The fine structures are modelled as cylindrically symmetric magnetic flux tubes with a dense central part with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 I. Arregui , R. Soler , J. L. Ballester , A. N. Wright

We present an estimation of the lower limits of local magnetic fields in quiescent, activated, and active (surges) promineces, based on reconstructed 3-dimensional (3D) trajectories of individual prominence knots. The 3D trajectories,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Maciej Zapiór , Paweł Rudawy

This paper summarises some of the recent progress that has been made in understanding astrophysical plasma turbulence in the solar wind, from in situ spacecraft observations. At large scales, where the turbulence is predominantly Alfvenic,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 C. H. K. Chen

We investigate the nature of dissipative instability at the boundary (seen here as tangential discontinuity) between the viscous corona and the partially ionised prominence plasma in the incompressible limit. The importance of the partial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Ramon Oliver , Marios Alexandrou

The observational signatures of prominences have been detected in single and binary G and K type stars for many years now, but recently this has been extended to the M dwarf regime. Prominences carry away both mass and angular momentum when…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Carolina Villarreal D'Angelo , Moira Jardine , Victor See

The structure of a star's coronal magnetic field is a fundamental property that governs the high-energy emission from the hot coronal gas and the loss of mass and angular momentum in the stellar wind. It is, however, extremely difficult to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Jardine , A. Collier Cameron , J. -F. Donati , G. A. J. Hussain

We present a study of magnetic field fluctuations, in a slow solar wind stream, close to ion scales, where an increase of the level of magnetic compressibility is observed. Here, the nature of these compressive fluctuations is found to be…

The concept of prominence is familiar to signal engineers, topographers and mountaineers. We introduce Prominence $\mathcal P$ as a discriminator of gravitational wave (GW) signals. We treat black hole and neutron star binaries as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-09 João Gonçalves , Danny Marfatia , António P. Morais

Prominences (PRs) are among the most common solar phenomena, yet their full physical picture, particularly their chromospheric mm emission, remains incomplete. The new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) presents an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 F. Matković , R. Brajša , A. O. Benz , H. -G. Ludwig , C. L. Selhorst , I. Skokić , D. Sudar , A. Hanslmeier

A solar filament is a dense cool condensation that is supported and thermally insulated by magnetic fields in the rarefied hot corona. Its evolution and stability, leading to either an eruption or disappearance, depend on its coupling with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-04 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , L. Li

We present the detection of a bubble-like cavity traveling through a quiescent prominence. The H-alpha emission in the cavity is >16 times smaller than in its surroundings. The cavity propagates almost with the phase-velocity of MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-29 G. Stellmacher , E. Wiehr

SWAP images from PROBA2 taken at 174 {\AA} in the Fe IX/X lines are compared with simultaneous slitless flash spectra obtained during the solar total eclipse of 11 July, 2010. Myriads of faint low excitation emission lines together with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-27 C. Bazin , S. Koutchmy , E. Tavabi

We investigate the properties of nonlinear fast magnetosonic (NFM) waves in a solar prominence, motivated by recent high-resolution and high-cadence Hinode/SOT observations of small-scale oscillations in a prominence pillar. As an example,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Leon Ofman , Therese A. Kucera , C. Richard DeVore