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The recent observations of Singh et al. (2012) have shown multiple plasma ejections and the intermittent nature of magnetic reconnection in the solar chromosphere, highlighting the need for fast reconnection to occur in highly collisional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 K. A. P. Singh , Andrew Hillier , H. Isobe , K. Shibata

We have investigated the degree to which turbulence in the Very Local Interstellar Clouds resembles the highly-studied turbulence in the solar corona and the solar wind. The turbulence diagnostics for the Local Clouds are the absorption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Steven R. Spangler , Allison H. Savage , Seth Redfield

The eruption of the filament with the kink fashion is often regarded as a signature of the kink instability. However, the kink instability threshold for the filament magnetic structure has been not widely understood. Using the H-alpha…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yi Bi , Yunchun Jiang , Jiayan Yang , Yongyuan Xiang , Yunfang Cai , Weiwei Liu

We report pore-scale statistical properties of temperature and thermal energy dissipation rate in a two-dimensional porous Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) cell. High-resolution direct numerical simulations were carried out for the fixed Rayleigh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-20 Ao Xu , Ben-Rui Xu , Heng-Dong Xi

The large-amplitude longitudinal oscillations of solar filaments have been observed and explored for more than ten years. Previous studies are mainly based on the one-dimensional rigid flux tube model with a single magnetic dip. However, it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Yu-Hao Zhou , Li-Yue Zhang , Y. Ouyang , P. F. Chen , C. Fang

The hot and diffuse nature of the Sun's extended atmosphere allows it to persist in non-equilibrium states for long enough that wave-particle instabilities can arise and modify the evolution of the expanding solar wind. Determining which…

Cool, dense material is frequently observed to permeate the hot, tenuous solar corona in the form of prominences, spicules and coronal rain. Both the cool material and surrounding corona exist at temperatures that are effectively thermally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 B. Snow , A. Hillier

The indefinite increase of temperature predicted by the solar wind expansion in the direction parallel to the interplanetary magnetic field is already notorious for not being confirmed by the observations. In hot and dilute plasmas from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 M. Lazar , S. M. Shaaban , S. Poedts , Š. Štverák

Observations and models of solar prominences are reviewed. We focus on non-eruptive prominences, and describe recent progress in four areas of prominence research: (1) magnetic structure deduced from observations and models, (2) the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. H. Mackay , J. T. Karpen , J. L. Ballester , B. Schmieder , G. Aulanier

Using magnetic and microwave butterfly diagrams, we compare the behavior of solar polar regions to show that (i) the polar magnetic field and the microwave brightness temperature during the solar minimum substantially diminished during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Gopalswamy , S. Yashiro , P. Mäkelä , G. Michalek , K. Shibasaki , D. H. Hathaway

Solar prominences are subject to all kinds of perturbations during their lifetime, and frequently demonstrate oscillations. The study of prominence oscillations provides an alternative way to investigate their internal magnetic and thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Yu-Hao Zhou , C. Xia , R. Keppens , C. Fang , P. F. Chen

We argue that earth's short-term temperature anomalies and the solar flare intermittency are linked. The analysis is based upon the study of the scaling of both the spreading and the entropy of the diffusion generated by the fluctuations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicola Scafetta , Bruce J. West

Any successful model of coronal loops must explain a number of observed properties. For warm (~ 1 MK) loops, these include: 1. excess density, 2. flat temperature profile, 3. super-hydrostatic scale height, 4. unstructured intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. A. Klimchuk , J. T. Karpen , S. K. Antiochos

In situ observations of the solar wind show a limited level of particle temperature anisotropy with respect to the interplanetary magnetic field direction. Kinetic electromagnetic instabilities are efficient to prevent the excessive growth…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 A. Micera , E. Boella , A. N. Zhukov , S. M. Shaaban , R. A. López , M. Lazar , G. Lapenta

In this work, we study the causal relations between a localised energy release and a remote prominence oscillation, where the prominence has a realistic thread-like structure. We used an open source magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code known as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 V. Jerčić , R. Keppens , Y. Zhou

Solar prominences are clouds of cool plasma levitating above the solar surface and insulated from the million-degree corona by magnetic fields. They form in regions of complex magnetic topology, characterized by non-potential fields, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , R. Manso Sainz , A. Asensio Ramos , C. Beck , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , A. J. Diaz

Thermal instability plays a crucial role in the dynamics of astrophysical plasmas. Building upon the foundational work of G. B. Field (1965) and the subsequent analysis by T. Waters & D. Proga (2019), this study revisits thermal instability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Varsha Felsy , Ramon Oliver , Jaume Terradas , Amanda Stricklan , Timothy Waters , James A. Klimchuk

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability has been proposed as a mechanism to extract energy from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in flux tubes, and to drive dissipation of this wave energy through turbulence. It is therefore a potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Andrew Hillier , Adrian Barker , Iñigo Arregui , Henrik Latter

An electron distribution with a temperature anisotropy T_par/T_perp > 1 can lead to the Electron Firehose instability (Here par and perp denote directions relative to the background magnetic field B_0). Since possible particle acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunnar Paesold , Arnold O. Benz

High-resolution observations from the $Interface~Region~Imaging~Spectrometer$ ($IRIS$) reveal the existence of a particular type of small solar jets, which arose singly or in clusters from a tornado-like prominence suspended in the corona.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Huadong Chen , Jun Zhang , Bart De Pontieu , Suli Ma , Bernhard Kliem , Eric Priest