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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

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

By means of self-consistent 3D MHD numerical simulations, we analyze magnetized solar-like stellar winds and their dependence on the plasma-beta parameter. We adopt in our simulations a heating parameter described by gamma, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. A. Vidotto , M. Opher , V. Jatenco-Pereira , T. I. Gombosi

The physical connection among and formation mechanisms of various components of the prominence-horn cavity system remain elusive. Here we present observations of such a system, focusing on a section of the prominence that rises and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Bing Wang , Yao Chen , Jie Fu , Bo Li , Xing Li , Wei Liu

In solving the solar coronal heating problem, it is crucial to comprehend the mechanisms by which energy is conveyed from the photosphere to the corona. Recently, magnetic tornadoes, characterized as coherent, rotating magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hidetaka Kuniyoshi , Munehito Shoda , Haruhisa Iijima , Takaaki Yokoyama

We present a new methodology -- the Keplerian Optical Dynamics Analysis (KODA) -- for analyzing the dynamics of dense, cool material in the solar corona. The technique involves adaptive spatiotemporal tracking of propagating intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 V. M. Uritsky , B. J. Thompson , C. R. DeVore

Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many new studies in laboratory astrophysics, inertial confinement fusion, and industrial applications. Here we present the results of large-scale, three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic…

Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics is often assumed to describe solar wind turbulence. We use extended self similarity to reveal scaling in structure functions of density fluctuations in the solar wind. Obtained scaling is then compared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bogdan Hnat , Sandra C. Chapman , George Rowlands

Solar prominences are magnetic structures incarcerating cool and dense gas in an otherwise hot solar corona. Prominences can be categorized as quiescent and active. Their origin and the presence of cool gas (~$10^4$K) within the hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Swati Routh , Snehanshu Saha , Atul Bhat , M. N. Sundar

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

Rotating magnetic structures are common in astrophysics, from vortex tubes and tornados in the Sun all the way to jets in different astrophysical systems. The physics of these objects often combine inertial, magnetic, gas pressure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Manuel Luna , Eric Priest , Fernando Moreno-Insertis

A rotating star with a monopole (or split monopole) magnetic field gives the simplest, prototype model of a rotationally driven stellar wind. Winds from compact objects, in particular neutron stars, carry strong magnetic fields with modest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-10 Rui Hu , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Alexander Y. Chen

The interpretation of single-point spacecraft measurements of solar wind turbulence is complicated by the fact that the measurements are made in a frame of reference in relative motion with respect to the turbulent plasma. The Taylor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 G. G. Howes , K. G. Klein , J. M. TenBarge

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

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

Polar crown prominences are made of chromospheric plasma partially circling the Suns poles between 60 and 70 degree latitude. We aim to diagnose the 3D dynamics of a polar crown prominence using high cadence EUV images from the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 N. K. Panesar , D. E. Innes , D. J. Schmit , S. K. Tiwari

Solar prominences are cool and dense plasma structures floating in the hot solar corona. They are ubiquitous features in the solar atmosphere, but their formation mechanism is still unclear. Here we perform comprehensive fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Lisa-Marie Zessner , Robert H. Cameron , Sami K. Solanki , Damien Przybylski

Several topics in the theory of magnetized turbulence are reviewed with application to star formation and the interstellar medium. The density, pressure, and temperature distribution in a turbulent interstellar medium is described in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Observations and simulations of barred spiral galaxies have shown that, in general, the spiral arms rotate at a different pattern speed to that of the bar. The main conclusion from the bibliography is that the bar rotates faster than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 M. Harsoula , C. Efthymiopoulos , G. Contopoulos , A. C. Tzemos

We present the first stereoscopic and Doppler observations of simultaneous transverse oscillations of a prominence and a filament and longitudinal oscillation of another filament launched by a single shock wave. Using H-alpha Doppler…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yuandeng Shen , Ying D. Liu , P. F. Chen , Kiyoshi Ichimoto
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