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The eruption of a large quiescent prominence on 17 August 2013 and associated coronal mass ejection (CME) were observed from different vantage points by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-04 I. V. Kuzmenko , V. V. Grechnev

An isolated and fast decayed active region (NOAA 9729) was observed when passing through solar disk. There is only one CME related with it that give us a good opportunity to investigate the whole process of the CME. Filament in this active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Shangbin Yang , Wenbin Xie , Jihong Liu

We investigate the heating of an erupting prominence and loops associated with a coronal mass ejection and X-class flare. The prominence is seen in absorption in EUV at the beginning of its eruption. Later the prominence changes to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Jin-Yi Lee , John C. Raymond , Katharine K. Reeves , Yong-Jae Moon , Kap-Sung Kim

The eruption of solar filaments, also known as prominences appearing off-limb, is a common phenomenon in the solar atmosphere. It ejects massive plasma and high-energy particles into interplanetary space, disturbing the solar-terrestrial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 Ye Qiu , Chuan Li , Yang Guo , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding , Linggao Kong

We present magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the evolution from quasi-equilibrium to eruption of a prominence-forming twisted coronal flux rope under a coronal streamer. We have compared the cases with and without the formation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yuhong Fan

It is not fully understood why some solar filaments erupt while others do not. Those that do typically undergo a slow rise followed by an acceleration phase, though this transition requires further investigation. Erupting prominences have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Dion Donné , Yuhao Zhou , Hebe Cremades , Rony Keppens

Observations of the early rise and propagation phases of solar eruptive prominences can provide clues about the forces acting on them through the behavior of their acceleration with height. We have analyzed such an event, observed on 13…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-17 M. Mierla , D. B. Seaton , D. Berghmans , I. Chifu , A. De Groof , B. Inhester , L. Rodriguez , G. Stenborg , A. N. Zhukov

We analyze the characteristics of a quiescent polar prominence using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Initially, small-scale barb-like structures are evident on the solar disk, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Sudheer K. Mishra , Abhishek K. Srivastava , P. F. Chen

The helical kink instability of a twisted magnetic flux tube has been suggested as a trigger mechanism for solar filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In order to investigate if estimations of the pre-eruptive twist can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tibor Torok , Bernhard Kliem , Mitchell A. Berger , Mark G. Linton , Pascal Demoulin , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

The life of a solar active prominence, one of the most remarkable objects on the Sun, is full of dynamics; after first appearing on the Sun the prominence continuously evolves with various internal motions and eventually produces a global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Tetsuya Magara

Magnetic flux rope (MFR) is a coherent and helical magnetic field structure that is recently found probably to appear as an elongated hot-channel prior to a solar eruption. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , J. Zhang , A. K. Srivastava , Y. Guo , P. F. Chen , J. Q. Sun

Solar prominences are long-lived cool and dense plasma curtains in the hot and rarefied outer solar atmosphere or corona. The physical mechanism responsible for their formation and especially for their internal plasma circulation has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

The background field is assumed to play prime role in the erupting structures like prominences. In the flux rope models, the critical decay index ($n_c$) is a measure of the rate at which background field intensity decreases with height…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Vasantharaju , P. Vemareddy , B. Ravindra , V. H. Doddamani

We present a statistical study of prominence and filament eruptions observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Several properties are recorded for 904 events that were culled from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Patrick I. McCauley , Yingna Su , Nicole Schanche , Kaitlin E. Evans , Chuan Su , Sean McKillop , Katharine K. Reeves

Developing an understanding of how magnetic fields can become entangled in a prominence is important for predicting a possible eruption. This work investigates the kinetic energy and vorticity associated with plasma motion residing inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 M. S. Freed , D. E. McKenzie , D. W. Longcope , M. Wilburn

Using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, we investigate the eruption of coronal flux ropes underlying coronal streamers and the development of a prominence eruption. We initialize a quasi-steady solution of a coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Yuhong Fan

The rotation of erupting filaments in the solar corona is addressed through a parametric simulation study of unstable, rotating flux ropes in bipolar force-free initial equilibrium. The Lorentz force due to the external shear field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Kliem , T. Török , W. T. Thompson

The magnetic configuration hosting prominences and their surrounding coro- nal structure is a key research topic in solar physics. Recent theoretical and observational studies strongly suggest that a helical magnetic flux rope is an es-…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Yang Guo

MRT unstable plumes are observed in a loop-like eruptive prominence using SDO/AIA observations. The small-scale cavities are developed within the prominence, where perturbations trigger dark plumes (P1 \& P2) propagating with the speed of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Sudheer K. Mishra , A. K. Srivastava