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The first dedicated observation of an off-limb prominence by the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on board Solar Orbiter took place on April 15, 2023. Our aim is to provide an overview of the potentiality of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Yong Zhang , Nicolas Labrosse , Susanna Parenti , Therese A. Kucera

The launch of the Hinode satellite has allowed for seeing-free observations at high-resolution and high-cadence making it well suited to study the dynamics of quiescent prominences. In recent years it has become clear that quiescent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Hillier , R. J. Morton , R. Erdélyi

To understand the formation mechanism of large plumes in solar prominences, we investigate the formation process of two such phenomena. We studied the dynamic and thermal properties of two large plumes using observations from New Vacuum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Jincheng Wang , Xiaoli Yan , Zhike Xue , Liheng Yang , Qiaoling Li , Hechao Chen , Chun Xia , Zhong Liu

We review major achievements in our understanding of multiphase coronal plasma, where cool-dense and hot-tenuous matter coexists, brought about by advances in modeling and theory, inspired by observations. We give an overview of models that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Rony Keppens , Yuhao Zhou , Chun Xia

We carry out magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the quasi-static evolution and eruption of a twisted coronal flux rope under a coronal streamer built up by an imposed flux emergence at the lower boundary. The MHD model incorporates a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yuhong Fan

The interiors of quiescent prominences are filled with turbulent flows. The evolution of upflow plumes, descending pillars, and vortex motions has been clearly detected in high-resolution observations. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Takafumi Kaneko , Takaaki Yokoyama

We investigate triggering, activation, and ejection of a solar eruptive prominence that occurred in a multi-polar flux system of active region NOAA 11548 on 2012 August 18 by analyzing data from AIA on board SDO, RHESSI, and EUVI/SECCHI on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Bhuwan Joshi , Upendra Kushwaha , Astrid Veronig , Kyung-Suk Cho

High resolution movies in 193 A from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamic Observatory SDO show apparent rotation in the leg of a prominence observed during a coordinated campaign. Such structures are commonly referred…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 B. Schmieder , P. Mein , N. Mein , P. J. Levens , N. Labrosse , L. Ofman

We analyze a prominence-like cool plasma structure as observed by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We perform the Differential Emission Measure (DEM) analysis using various filters of AIA, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Bhola N. Dwivedi , A. K. Srivastava , Anita Mohan

Using the multi-temperature observations from SDO/AIA on 30th December 2019, we provide a signature of prominence driven forced magnetic reconnection in the corona and associated plasma dynamics during 09:20 UT to 10:38 UT. A hot prominence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 A. K. Srivastava , Sudheer K. Mishra , P. Jelínek

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

Sympathetic eruptions of solar prominences have been studied for decades, however, it is usually difficult to identify their causal links. Here we present two failed prominence eruptions on 26 October 2022 and explore their connections.…

Partially ionised plasmas (PIP) constitute an essential ingredient of our plasma universe. Historically, the physical effects associated with partial ionisation were considered in astrophysical topics such as the interstellar medium,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Susanna Parenti , Manuel Luna , José Luis Ballester

In this paper, we report our multi-angle observations of the transverse oscillation of a prominence and a filament induced by an EUV wave originating from the farside of the Sun on 2014 September 1. The prominence oscillation was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Yanjie Zhang , Qingmin Zhang , De-chao Song , Haisheng Ji

Context. Prominence eruptions provide key observations to understand the launch of coronal mass ejections as their cold plasma traces a part of the unstable magnetic configuration. Aims. We select a well observed case to derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Pooja Devi , Pascal Démoulin , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Bhuwan Joshi

We present the first combined Ly<alpha> and Ly<beta> profiles in solar prominences obtained by the SOHO/SUMER instrument and discuss their important spatial variability with respect to predictions from 1D and multithread models.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -C. Vial , H. Ebadi , A. Ajabshirizadeh

We report findings from 0.2" resolution observations of the 2007 October 03 quiescent prominence observed with the Solar Optical Telescope on the Hinode satellite. The observations show clear ejections from the top of the quiescent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrew Hillier , Hiroaki Isobe , Hiroko Watanabe

We report on the occurrence of small-scale vortices in simulations of the convective solar surface. Using an eigenanalysis of the velocity gradient tensor, we find the subset of high vorticity regions in which the plasma is swirling. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Moll , R. H. Cameron , M. Schüssler

Small amplitude oscillations are a commonly observed feature in prominences/filaments. These oscillations appear to be of local nature, are associated to the fine structure of prominence plasmas, and simultaneous flows and counterflows are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 I. Arregui , J. L. Ballester

Observations of rapidly-rotating cool stars often show coronal slingshot prominences that remove mass and angular momentum when they are ejected. The derived masses of these prominences show a scatter of some two orders of magnitude. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-16 Sarah J. Faller , Moira M. Jardine