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The dense prominence material is believed to be supported against gravity through the magnetic tension of dipped coronal magnetic field. For quiescent prominences, which exhibit many gravity-driven flows, hydrodynamic forces are likely to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Andrew Hillier , Adriaan van Ballegooijen

The eruption of solar prominences can eject substantial mass and magnetic field into interplanetary space and cause geomagnetic storms. However, various questions about prominences and their eruption mechanism remain unclear. In particular,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Chengrui Zhou , Yuandeng Shen , Chun Xia , Dongxu Liu , Zehao Tang , Surui Yao

Quiescent prominences host a diverse range of flows, including Rayleigh-Taylor instability driven upflows and impulsive downflows, and so it is no surprise that turbulent motions also exist. As prominences are believed to have a mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Andrew Hillier , Takeshi Matsumoto , Kiyoshi Ichimoto

Solar prominences are an important tool for studying the structure and evolution of the coronal magnetic field. Here we consider so-called "hedgerow" prominences, which consist of thin vertical threads. We explore the possibility that such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. A. van Ballegooijen , S. R. Cranmer

As more cooling flow clusters of galaxies with central radio sources are observed with the Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray Observatories, more examples of "bubbles" (low-emission regions in the X-ray coincident with radio emission) are being…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Noam Soker , Elizabeth L. Blanton , Craig L. Sarazin

Su et al. 2012 proposed a new explanation for filament formation and eruption, where filament barbs are rotating magnetic structures driven by underlying vortices on the surface. Such structures have been noticed as tornado-like prominences…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Su , Peter Gömöry , Astrid Veronig , Manuela Temmer , Tongjiang Wang , Kamalam Vanninathan , Weiqun Gan , Youping Li

Solar prominences (or filaments) are cooler and denser plasma suspended in the much hotter and rarefied solar corona. When viewed on the solar disc filament barbs or feet protrude laterally from filament spine. When observed at the limb of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Huadong Chen , Chun Xia , Suli Ma , Yingna Su , Guiping Zhou , Eric Priest , Lyndsay Fletcher , Yuandeng Shen , Weining Tu , Wei Wang , Jun Zhang

Solar prominences usually have a horizontally elongated body with many feet extending to the solar surface, resembling a multi-arch bridge with many bridge piers. The basic mechanism by which solar prominences acquire these common…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Huanxin Chen , Chun Xia , Hechao Chen

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

Observations of active regions and limb prominences often show cold, dense blobs descending with an acceleration smaller than that of free fall. The dynamics of these condensations falling in the solar corona is investigated in this paper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-03 R. Oliver , R. Soler , J. Terradas , T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. L. Khodachenko

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

Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection displays a large-scale order in the form of rolls and cells on lengths larger than the layer height once the fluctuations of temperature and velocity are removed. These turbulent superstructures are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-30 Ambrish Pandey , Janet D. Scheel , Jörg Schumacher

A prominence eruption on 7 June 2011 produced spectacular curtains of plasma falling through the lower corona. At the solar surface they created an incredible display of extreme ultraviolet brightenings. The aim is to identify and analyze…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. E. Innes , R. H. Cameron , L. Fletcher , B. Inhester , S. K. Solanki

Recent results of a mixed shell model heated asymmetrically by transient increases in nuclear burning indicate the transient generation of small hot spots inside the Sun somewhere between 0.1 and 0.2 solar radii. These hot bubbles are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Attila Grandpierre

Fluid turbulence is commonly associated with stronger drag, greater heat transfer, and more efficient mixing than in laminar flows. In many natural and industrial settings, turbulent liquid flows contain suspensions of dispersed bubbles and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-29 Varghese Mathai , Detlef Lohse , Chao Sun

Radio galaxies are known to inflate lobes of hot relativistic plasmas into the intergalactic medium. Here we present hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical simulations of these hot plasma bubbles in FRII objects. We focus on the later…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Brüggen , C. R. Kaiser

Stably-stratified layers may be present at the top of the electrically-conducting fluid layers of many planets either because the temperature gradient is locally subadiabatic or because a stable composition gradient is maintained by the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Celine Guervilly

The launch of Hinode satellite led to the discovery of rising plumes, dark in chromospheric lines, in quiescent prominences that propagate from large (~10 Mm) bubbles that form at the base of the prominences. These plumes present a very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrew Hillier , Richard Hillier , Durgesh Tripathi

An overview is presented of the main properties of the interstellar medium. Evidence is summarized that the interstellar medium is highly turbulent, driven on different length scales by various energetic processes. Large-scale turbulence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Burkert

We propose an in-situ formation model for inverse-polarity solar prominence and demonstrate it using self-consistent 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, including thermal conduction along magnetic fields and optically thin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takafumi Kaneko , Takaaki Yokoyama