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Context. A large prominence was observed on September 24, 2013, for three hours (12:12 UT -15:12 UT) with the newly launched (June 2013) Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), THEMIS (Tenerife), the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 Brigitte Schmieder , Hui Tian , Arturo Lopez Ariste , Nicole Mein , Pierre Mein , Kevin Dalmasse , Leon Golub

Coronal cavities, often associated with prominences, are crucial structures in understanding coronal heating and the eruption mechanism of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Previous studies have identified their lower density, higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Chenxi Huangfu , Hui Fu , Bo Li , ZhengHua Huang , MingZhe Sun , WeiXin Liu , XiaoYu Yu , LiDong Xia

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) often exhibit a three-part structure consisting of a bright inner core, an outer leading edge, and an intervening dark cavity. While the core has traditionally been attributed to prominence material, an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Sunit Sundar Pradhan , Jayant Joshi , Tanmoy Samanta

The nature of flows in tornado-prominences is an open issue. While the AIA imager aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) allowed us to follow the global structure of a tornado-like prominence during five hours, the Interface Region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Krzysztof Barczynski , Brigitte Schmieder , Aaron W. Peat , Nicolas Labrosse , Pierre Mein , Nicole Mein

Prominences are large magnetic structures in the corona filled by cool plasma with fast evolving fine structure. We aim to better understand the plasma conditions in the fine structure of a quiescent prominence including two transient horns…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Krzysztof Barczynski , Brigitte Schmieder , Bernard Gelly , Aaron W. Peat , Nicolas Labrosse

Prominence oscillations are one of interesting phenomena in the solar atmosphere, which can be utilized to infer the embedded magnetic field magnitude. We present here the transverse oscillations of two different prominences located at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Pooja Devi , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi , P. F. Chen , Brigitte Schmieder , Wahab Uddin , Yong-Jae Moon

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

A quiescent prominence was observed at north-west limb of the Sun using different channels of Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We report and analyse twisting/swirling motions during and after the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 V. Pant , A. Datta , D. Banerjee , K. Chandrashekhar , S. Ray

Solar active regions (ARs) are areas on the Sun with very strong magnetic fields where various activities take place. Prominences are one of the typical solar features in the solar atmosphere, whose eruptions often lead to solar flares and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 T. Zhang , Q. Hao , P. F. Chen

In this paper, we carry out multiwavelength observations of two successive extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves originating from active region (AR) NOAA 13575 and a transverse oscillation of a columnar quiescent prominence on 2024 February 9. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-08 Q. M. Zhang , M. S. Lin , X. L. Yan , J. Dai , Z. Y. Hou , Y. Li , Y. Qiu

In this paper we present the results of a morphological study performed on a sample of 28 ultracompact \hiirs~located near extended free-free emission, using radio continuum observations at 3.6~cm with the C and D VLA~configurations, with…

Wind-driven outflows are observed around a broad range of accreting objects throughout the Universe, ranging from forming low-mass stars to super-massive black holes. We study the interaction between a central isotropic wind and an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Lichen Liang , Doug Johnstone , Sylvie Cabrit , Lars E. Kristensen

Active prominences exhibit plasma motions, resulting in difficulties with the interpretation of spectroscopic observations. These solar features being strongly influenced by the radiation coming from the solar disk, Doppler dimming or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Labrosse , Pierre Gouttebroze , Jean-Claude Vial

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

Quiescent prominences are thin slabs of cold, dense plasma embedded in the much hotter and rarer solar corona. Although their global shape is rather irregular, they are often characterised by an internal structure consisting of a large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-23 R. Oliver

Understanding the density structure of the solar corona is important for modeling both coronal heating and the solar wind. Direct measurements are difficult because of line-of-sight integration and possible unresolved structures. We present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

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 present observations and magnetic field modeling of the large polar crown prominence that erupted on 2010 December 6. Combination of SDO/AIA and STEREO$\_$Behind/EUVI allows us to see the fine structures of this prominence both at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Yingna Su , Adriaan van Ballegooijen

In a continuing survey of active galactic nuclei observed by the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, we provide a deeper analysis of intrinsic absorption features found in 35 objects. Our survey is for low-redshift and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jay P. Dunn , D. Michael Crenshaw , S. B. Kraemer , M. L. Trippe

We present new observations of the prominence system on the K3 dwarf Speedy Mic (BO Mic, HD 197890). Using an improved technique to track the absorption features in H_alpha we find a very active prominence system with approximately ten…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. J. Dunstone , J. R. Barnes , A. Collier Cameron , M. Jardine