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Prominence oscillations are one of interesting phenomena in the solar atmosphere, which can be utilized to infer the embedded magnetic field magnitude. We present here the transverse oscillations of two different prominences located at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Pooja Devi , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi , P. F. Chen , Brigitte Schmieder , Wahab Uddin , Yong-Jae Moon

Helioseismic and magnetohydrodynamic waves are abundant in and above sunspots. Through cross-correlating oscillation signals in the photosphere observed by the SDO/HMI, we reconstruct how waves propagate away from virtual wave sources…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Junwei Zhao , Ruizhu Chen , Thomas Hartlep , Alexander G. Kosovichev

We analyze solar quiescent prominence bubble characteristics and instability dynamics using Hinode/Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) data. We measure bubble expansion rate, prominence downflows, and the profile of the boundary layer brightness…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Thomas Berger , Andrew Hillier , Wei Liu

Previous works indicate that the frequency ratio of second and first harmonics of kink oscillations has tendency towards 3 in the case of prominence threads. We aim to study the magnetohydrodynamic oscillations of longitudinally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 S. N. Lomineishvili , T. V. Zaqarashvili , I. Zhelyazkov , A. G. Tevzadze

Context. Observations have shown that twisted magnetic fields naturally occur, and indeed are omnipresent in the Sun's atmosphere. It is therefore of great theoretical interest in solar atmospheric waves research to investigate the types of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 O. K. Cheremnykh , V. Fedun , A. N. Kryshtal , G. Verth

Due to the effects of surface electromigration, waves can propagate over the free surface of a current-carrying metallic or semiconducting film of thickness h_0. In this paper, waves of finite amplitude, and slow modulations of these waves,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Mark Bradley

We study the space-time distributions of intensity fluctuations in 2 - 3 hour sequences of multi-spectral, high-resolution, high-cadence broad-band filtergram images (BFI) made by the SOT-FG system aboard the Hinode spacecraft. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. K. Lawrence , A. C. Cadavid

Developing an understanding of how magnetic fields can become entangled in a prominence is important for predicting a possible eruption. This work investigates the kinetic energy and vorticity associated with plasma motion residing inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 M. S. Freed , D. E. McKenzie , D. W. Longcope , M. Wilburn

Slow MHD waves are important tools for understanding the coronal structures and dynamics. In this paper, we report a number of observations, from X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board HINODE and SDO/AIA of reflecting longitudinal waves in hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Sudip Mandal , Ding Yuan , Xia Fang , Dipankar Banerjee , Vaibhav Pant , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Slow magnetoacoustic waves with a 3 minute period are upward-propagating waves traveling through the density-stratified umbral atmosphere. The decreasing density causes their amplitude to increase, developing into nonlinear waves through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Y. Sanjay , S. Krishna Prasad , R. Sych , P. S. Rawat

Previous studies have established that a weak-to-strong transition occurs in Alfvenic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence as energy cascades from large to small scales. However, the spatiotemporal (frequency-wavenumber) properties of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou , Ka Ho Yuen

The effects of radiative losses due to Newtonian cooling and MHD turbulence have been considered to examine the spatial damping of linear compressional waves in quiescent prominences and prominence-corona transition region (PCTR). The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kunwar Alkendra Pratap Singh

We report on an observation of propagating compression waves in a quasi-two-dimensional monolayer of apolar granular rods fluidized by an upflow of air. The collective wave speed is an order of magnitude faster than the speed of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-26 L. J. Daniels , D. J. Durian

We examine the excitation of unstable magnetosonic waves in the radiative envelopes of intermediate- and high-mass stars with a magnetic field of ~kG strength. Wind clumping close to the star and microturbulence can often be accounted for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Koushik Sen , Rodrigo Fernández , Aristotle Socrates

Propagating slow magneto-acoustic waves are often observed in polar plumes and active region fan loops. The observed periodicities of these waves range from a few minutes to few tens of minutes and their amplitudes were found to decay…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , T. Van Doorsselaere

We have made polarimetric monitoring observations of millisecond pulsars visible from the northern hemisphere at 1410 MHz. Their emission properties are compared with those of normal pulsars. Although we demonstrated in paper I that…

Prominence seismology, applied to the large-amplitude longitudinal oscillation, is used to indirectly diagnose the geometry and strength of the magnetic fields inside the prominence. In this paper, combining imaging and spectroscopic data,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Jun Dai , Ayumi Asai , Dechao Song , Ye Qiu , Zhe Xu

High resolution observations have permitted to resolve the solar prominences/filaments as sets of threads/fibrils. However, the values of the physical parameters of these threads and their structuring remain poorly constrained. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 M. Montes-Solís , I. Arregui

The present paper reviews recent advances in the theory of nonlinear driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in slow and Alfven resonant layers. Simple estimations show that in the vicinity of resonant positions the amplitude of variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Michael Ruderman

We focus on Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) calcium II H-line observations of a solar quiescent prominence (QP) that exhibits highly variable dynamics suggestive of turbulence. These images capture a sufficient range of scales…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ersilia Leonardis , Sandra C. Chapman , Claire Foullon