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Context. Different modes of oscillations are frequently observed in solar prominences/filaments, and prominence seismology helps estimate important physical parameters like the magnetic field strength. Although the simultaneous detection of…

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We study Hinode/SOT-FG observations of intensity fluctuations in Ca II H-line and G-band image sequences and their relation to simultaneous and co-spatial magnetic field measurements. We explore the G-band and H-line intensity oscillation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. K. Lawrence , A. C. Cadavid

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

We present the first Hinode/EIS observations of 5 min quasi-periodic oscillations detected in a transition-region line (He II) and five coronal lines (Fe X, Fe XII, Fe XIII, Fe XIV, and Fe XV) at the footpoint of a coronal loop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. J. Wang , L. Ofman , J. M. Davila

In the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field, we study the influence of space noncommutativity on the electromagnetic waves propagating through a quasi-static homogeneous plasma. In this treatment, we have adopted a physical model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bourouaine , A. Benslama

Solar prominence models used so far in the analysis of MHD waves in such structures are quite elementary. In this work, we calculate numerically magnetohydrostatic models in two-dimensional configurations under the presence of gravity. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Terradas , R. Soler , A. J. Díaz , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Solar prominences, intricate structures on the Sun's limb, have been a subject of fascination due to their thread-like features and dynamic behaviors. Utilizing data from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), Chinese H_alpha Solar Explorer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Jincheng Wang , Dong Li , Chuan Li , Yijun Hou , Zhike Xue , Zhe Xu , Liheng Yang , Qiaoling Li

Transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and may be responsible for generating the Sun's million-degree outer atmosphere. However, direct evidence of the dissipation process and heating from these…

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

Spin waves propagating in magnetic materials exhibit nonlinear behavior at large amplitudes due to the competition between excitation and relaxation, providing an attractive platform for exploring nonlinear wave dynamics. In particular,…

Context. Understanding the close relationship between the plasma and the magnetic field is important to describe and explain the observed complex dynamics of solar prominences. Aims. We determine if a close relationship between plasma and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 P. J. Levens , N. Labrosse , B. Schmieder , A. López Ariste , L. Fletcher

Turbulence in the magnetized plasma is well understood to be the consequence of wave interactions. When the Hall effect is added to the minimum magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the MHD waves become dispersive and different nonlinear interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Erik C. Hansen , Prerana Sharma , Swadesh M. Mahajan

Context. Prominence oscillations have been mostly detected using Doppler velocity, although there are also claimed detections by means of periodic variations in half-width or line intensity. However, scarce observational evidence exists…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Petr Heinzel , Maciej Zapiór , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

Oscillations and propagating waves are commonly seen in high-resolution observations of filament threads, i.e., the fine-structures of solar filaments/prominences. Since the temperature of prominences is typically of the order of 10^4 K,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Soler , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Solar prominences represent large-scale condensations suspended against gravity within the solar atmosphere. The Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability is proposed to be one of the important fundamental processes leading to the generation of…

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We calculate and analyze the longevity of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave modes that occur in the plane of a magnetic thin sheet. Initial turbulent conditions applied to a magnetically subcritical cloud are shown to lead to relatively rapid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-19 Shantanu Basu , Wolf B. Dapp

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

We study the existence and property of Fast magnetosonic modes in 3D compressible MHD turbulence by carrying out a number of simulations with compressible and incompressible driving conditions. We use two approaches to determine the…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Zhaoming Gan , Hui Li , Xiangrong Fu , Senbei Du

There have been increasing reports that the diffusion coefficient of macromolecules depends on time and fluctuates randomly. Here, a novel method to elucidate the fluctuating diffusivity from trajectory data is developed. The time-averaged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Tomoshige Miyaguchi

We study the propagation of waves from the photosphere to the chromosphere of sunspots. From time series of cospatial Ca II H (including its line blends) intensity spectra and polarimetric spectra of Si I 1082.7 nm and He I 1083.0 nm we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Felipe , E. Khomenko , M. Collados , C. Beck

Radio-wave scintillation observations reveal a nearly Kolmogorov spectrum of density fluctuations in the ionized interstellar medium. Although this density spectrum is suggestive of turbulence, no theory relevant to its interpretation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoram Lithwick , Peter Goldreich