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The triggering process for coronal mass ejections (CME) in the solar atmosphere is not fully understood. We use observations from different spacecraft at several wavelengths to detect an instability process for a prominence/filament with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Z. M. Vashalomidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. D. Kukhianidze , G. T. Ramishvili

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves, spectacular horizontally propagating disturbances in the low solar corona, always trigger horizontal secondary waves (SWs) when they encounter ambient coronal structure. We present a first example of upward…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Ruisheng Zheng , Yao Chen , Shiwei Feng , Bing Wang , Hongqiang Song

Solar tornadoes are dark vertical filamentary structures observed in the extreme ultraviolet associated with prominence legs and filament barbs. Their true nature and relationship to prominences requires understanding their magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , A. Asensio Ramos , I. Arregui , M. Collados , C. Beck , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

Turbulent plasma motion is common in the universe, and invoked in solar flares to drive effective acceleration leading to high energy electrons. Unresolved mass motions are frequently detected in flares from extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Wenzhi Ruan , Limei Yan , Rony Keppens

In this paper, we report our multiwavelength observations of the vertical oscillation of a coronal cavity on 2011 March 16. The elliptical cavity with an underlying horn-like quiescent prominence was observed by the Atmospheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Q. M. Zhang , H. S. Ji

We report the first analyses of SDO/AIA observations of the formation of a quiescent polar crown prominence in a coronal cavity. The He II 304 \AA\ (log T_{max} ~ 4.8 K) data show both the gradual disappearance of the prominence due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-04 Thomas E. Berger , Wei Liu , B. C. Low

A flare and fast coronal mass ejection originated between solar active regions NOAA 11514 and 11515 on July 1, 2012 in response to flux emergence in front of the leading sunspot of the trailing region 11515. Analyzing the evolution of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Rohan E. Louis , Bernhard Kliem , B. Ravindra , Georgios Chintzoglou

Solar eruptions are the most spectacular events in our solar system and are associated with many different signatures of energy release including solar flares, coronal mass ejections, global waves, radio emission and accelerated particles.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 David M. Long , Pearse Murphy , Georgina Graham , Eoin P. Carley , David Pérez-Suárez

It is recently noted that solar eruptions can be associated with the contraction of coronal loops that are not involved in magnetic reconnection processes. In this paper, we investigate five coronal eruptions originating from four sigmoidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Rui Liu , Chang Liu , Tibor Török , Yuming Wang , Haimin Wang

Utilizing observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-Ahead (STEREO-A), we investigate the event from two distinct observational perspectives: on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-02 Jincheng Wang , Xiaoli Yan , Qiangwei Cai , Zhike Xue , Liheng Yang , Qiaoling Li , Zhe Xu , Yunfang Cai , Liping Yang , Yang Peng , Xia Sun , Xinsheng Zhang , Yian Zhou

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

The quiet solar corona consists of myriads of loop-like features, with magnetic fields originating from network and internetwork regions on the solar surface. The continuous interaction between these different magnetic patches leads to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , P. R. Young

To better understand the structures of active-region filaments and the eruption process, we study an active-region filament eruption in active region NOAA 11082 in detail on June 22, 2010. Before the filament eruption, the opposite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 X. L. Yan , Z. K. Xue , J. H. Liu , D. F. Kong , C. L. Xu

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of a long duration white-light solar flare (M8.9/3B) event that occurred on 4 June 2007 from NOAA AR 10960. The flare was observed by several spaceborne instruments, namely SOHO/MDI, Hinode/SOT, TRACE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Pankaj Kumar , A. K. Srivastava , B. Filippov , Wahab Uddin

Solar flares occur due to the sudden release of energy stored in active-region magnetic fields. To date, the pre-cursors to flaring are still not fully understood, although there is evidence that flaring is related to changes in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-01 Sophie A. Murray , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher

We report on the tornado-like evolution of a quiescent prominence on 2014 November 1. The eastern section of the prominence first rose slowly transforming into an arch-shaped structure as high as ~150 Mm above the limb; the arch then…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Wensi Wang , Rui Liu , Yuming Wang

{We report our observations of a swirling flare-related EUV jet on 2011 October 15.} {We utilised the EUV observations from SDO/AIA. We extracted a wide slit along the jet axis and 12 thin slits across its axis to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Q. M. Zhang , H. S. Ji

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

Solar flares are one of the main forces behind space weather events. However the mechanism that drives such energetic phenomena is not fully understood. The standard eruptive flare model predicts that magnetic reconnection occurs high in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Imada , K. Aoki , H. Hara , T. Watanabe , L. K. Harra , T. Shimizu

The solar surface is covered by high-speed jets transporting mass and energy into the solar corona and feeding the solar wind. The most prominent of these jets have been known as spicules. However, the mechanism initiating these eruptions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. N. Kitiashvili , A. G. Kosovichev , S. K. Lele , N. N. Mansour , A. A. Wray