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Aims. We begin by exploring the influence of two classes of commonly adopted heating models on the formation behaviour of solar prominences. These models consider either an exponential variation dependent on height alone, or local density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 N. Brughmans , J. M. Jenkins , R. Keppens

The eruption of solar filaments, also known as prominences appearing off-limb, is a common phenomenon in the solar atmosphere. It ejects massive plasma and high-energy particles into interplanetary space, disturbing the solar-terrestrial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 Ye Qiu , Chuan Li , Yang Guo , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding , Linggao Kong

Prominence threads are dense and cold structures lying on curved magnetic fields that can be suspended in the solar atmosphere against gravity. The gravitational stability of threads, in the absence of non-ideal effects, is comprehensively…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 A. Adrover-González , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , M. Carbonell

We propose that pressure anisotropy causes weakly collisional turbulent plasmas to self-organize so as to resist changes in magnetic-field strength. We term this effect "magneto-immutability" by analogy with incompressibility (resistance to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Jonathan Squire , Alexander A. Schekochihin , Eliot Quataert , Matthew W. Kunz

Prominence bubbles are cavities rising into quiescent prominences from below. The bubble-prominence interface is often the active location for the formation of plumes, which flow turbulently into quiescent prominences. Not only the origin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Arun Kumar Awasthi , Rui Liu

We show in this article direct evidence for the presence of an inertial energy cascade, the most characteristic signature of hydromagnetic turbulence (MHD), in the solar wind as observed by the Ulysses spacecraft. After a brief rederivation…

Strongly intermittent turbulence is observed in the shadow of a limiter in the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at UCLA [W. Gekelman, H. Pfister, Z. Lucky, J. Bamber, D. Leneman, and J. Maggs, Rev. Sci. Inst. {\bfseries 62}, 2875 (1991)]. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. A. Carter

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

Solar prominences are subject to all kinds of perturbations during their lifetime, and frequently demonstrate oscillations. The study of prominence oscillations provides an alternative way to investigate their internal magnetic and thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Yu-Hao Zhou , C. Xia , R. Keppens , C. Fang , P. F. Chen

We show that light spiraling like a tornado can be generated by superimposing abruptly auto-focusing ring-Airy beams that carry orbital angular momentum of opposite handedness. With different parabolic propagation trajectories, the…

A model of a stable plasma formation, based on radial quantum oscillations of charged particles, is discussed. The given plasmoid is described with the help of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. A new phenomenon of the effective…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Maxim Dvornikov , G. Sh. Mekhdieva , L. A. Agamalieva

We present analytic calculations of the electromagnetic torques acting on a magnetic neutron star rotating in vacuum, including near-zone torques associated with the inertia of dipole and quadrupole magnetic fields. We incorporate these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

Vortex-magnetic interactions shape magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, influencing energy transfer in astrophysical, geophysical, and industrial systems. On the Sun, granular-scale vortex flows couple strongly with magnetic fields,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-15 Weiyu Shen , Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico , Xiaojue Zhu

Our goal is to find out possible appearance of rotational motion in the atmosphere, created by a lightning. A positive solution of this question, in the end, leads to a necessity of accepting that processes of birth and annihilation of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. D. Scherbin

Transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been shown to be ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and can in principle carry sufficient energy to generate and maintain the Sun's million-degree outer atmosphere or corona. However, direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Takenori J. Okamoto , Patrick Antolin , Bart De Pontieu , Han Uitenbroek , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

A connection between kinetic processes and intermittent turbulence is observed in the solar wind plasma using measurements from the Wind spacecraft at 1 AU. In particular, kinetic effects such as temperature anisotropy and plasma heating…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 K. T. Osman , W. H. Matthaeus , B. Hnat , S. C. Chapman

We present an observational study of the formation and disappearance of a funnel prominence. Before the funnel prominence formed, cool materials from the top of a preexisting polar crown prominence flowed along saddle-shaped coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Bo Yang , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Junchao Hong

We investigate how the strength of the Lorentz force alters stellar convection zone dynamics in a suite of buoyancy-dominated, three-dimensional, spherical shell convective dynamo models. This is done by varying only the magnetic Prandtl…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Krista M. Soderlund , Paula Wulff , Petri Käpylä , Jonathan M. Aurnou

Arched magnetized structures are a common occurrence in space and laboratory plasmas. Results from a laboratory experiment on spatio-temporal evolution of an arched magnetized plasma ($\beta \approx 10^{-3}$, Lundquist number $\approx…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Kamil D. Sklodowski , Shreekrishna Tripathi , Troy Carter

Prominences are incredibly dynamic across the whole range of their observable spatial scales, with observations revealing gravity-driven fluid instabilities, waves, and turbulence. With all these complex motions, it would be expected that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Andrew Hillier , Vanessa Polito