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Aims. Taking account of steady flow in solar prominences, we study its effects on spatial damping of small-amplitude non-adiabatic magnetoacoustic waves in a homogeneous, isothermal, and unbounded prominence plasma. Methods. We model the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-16 K. A. P. Singh , R. Erdelyi , B. N. Dwivedi

Longitudinal oscillations in prominences are common phenomena on the Sun. These oscillations can be used to infer the geometry and intensity of the filament magnetic field. Previous theoretical studies of longitudinal oscillations made two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 M. Luna , J. Terradas , J. Karpen , J. L. Ballester

This present study deals with the dissipative instability that appears in a compressible partially ionised plasma slab embedded in a uniform magnetic field, modelling the state of the plasma in solar prominences. In the partially ionised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 J. F. Mather , I. Ballai , R. Erdelyi

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

Prominences in the solar atmosphere represent an intriguing and delicate balance of forces and thermodynamics in an evolving magnetic topology. How this relatively cool material comes to reside at coronal heights, and what drives its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jack Jenkins , Rony Keppens

We present numerical magnetohydrostatic solutions describing the gravitationally stratified, bulk equilibrium of cool, dense prominence plasma embedded in a near-potential coronal field. These solutions are calculated using the FINESSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 G. J. D. Petrie , J. W. S. Blokland , R. Keppens

Solar prominence threads are typically located around magnetic dips, where cold and dense plasma is suspended against gravity in the hot corona thanks to the upward magnetic force. Because prominences are partially ionized, ambipolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Llorenç Melis , Roberto Soler

Prominence threads are very long and thin flux tubes which are partially filled with cold plasma. Observations have shown that transverse oscillations are frequent in these solar structures. The observations are usually interpreted as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Elena Khomenko

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

This series of papers investigates the dynamic interior of a quiescent prominence revealed by recent {\it Hinode} and {\it SDO/AIA} high-resolution observations. This first paper is a study of the static equilibrium of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. C. Low , T. Berger , R. Casini , W. Liu

The effects of finite amplitudes on the transverse oscillations of a quiescent prominence represented by a magnetic rope are investigated in terms of the model proposed by Kolotkov et al. 2016. We consider a weakly nonlinear case governed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-15 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Giuseppe Nistico , George Rowlands , Valery M. Nakariakov

A linear stability analysis of a multi-component and magnetized Galactic disk model is presented. The disk model uses the observed stratifications for the gas density and gravitational acceleration at the solar neighborhood and, in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jongsoo Kim , Jose Franco , S. S. Hong , Alfredo Santillan , Marco A. Martos

We investigate standing kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) oscillations in a prominence fine structure modeled as a straight and cylindrical magnetic tube only partially filled with the prominence material, and with its ends fixed at two rigid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roberto Soler , Inigo Arregui , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

Starting from a realistically sheared magnetic arcade connecting chromospheric, transition region to coronal plasma, we simulate the in-situ formation and sustained growth of a quiescent prominence in the solar corona. Contrary to previous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Chun Xia , P. F. Chen , Rony Keppens

We present high spatial resolution spectropolarimetric observations of a quiescent hedgerow prominence taken in the He I 1083.0 nm triplet. The observation consisted of a time series in sit-and-stare mode of 36 minutes of duration. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Orozco Suárez , J. A. Díaz , A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno

Given the difficulty in directly determining prominence physical parameters from observations, prominence seismology stands as an alternative method to probe the nature of these structures. We show recent examples of the application of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-24 I. Arregui , J. L. Ballester , R. Oliver , R. Soler , J. Terradas

The launch of the Hinode satellite has allowed unprecedented high resolution, stable images of solar quiescent prominences to be taken over extended periods of time. These new images led to the discovery of dark upflows that propagated from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Andrew Hillier , Hiroaki Isobe , Kazunari Shibata , Thomas Berger

Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 Chih-Yueh Wang , Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko

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

Large-amplitude longitudinal oscillations (LALOs) in prominences are spectacular manifestations of the solar activity. In such events nearby energetic disturbances induce periodic motions on filaments with displacements comparable to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 M. Luna , J. Terradas , E. Khomenko , M. Collados , A. de Vicente