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The RESIK instrument on {\em CORONAS-F} spacecraft observed several sulphur X-ray lines in three of its four channels covering the wavelength range 3.8-6.1 \AA\ during solar flares. The fluxes are analyzed to give the sulphur abundance.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Sylwester , B. Sylwester , K. J. H. Phillips , V. D. Kuznetsov

An observation of a large prominence on the solar limb took place on February 15, 2022, by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar Orbiter. We aim to determine the range of physical parameters of this prominence, such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Yong Zhang , Nicolas Labrosse , Sargam M. Mulay

Using spectra obtained by the EIS instrument onboard Hinode, we present a detailed spatially resolved abundance map of an active region (AR)-coronal hole (CH) complex that covers an area of 359 arcsec x 485 arcsec. The abundance map…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Baker , D. H. Brooks , P. Demoulin , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , L. M. Green , K. Steed , J. Carlyle

Observations and models of solar prominences are reviewed. We focus on non-eruptive prominences, and describe recent progress in four areas of prominence research: (1) magnetic structure deduced from observations and models, (2) the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. H. Mackay , J. T. Karpen , J. L. Ballester , B. Schmieder , G. Aulanier

Radiative losses play a critical role in the cooling of plasmas. When chromospheric plasma is sufficiently heated, it can flow into coronal loops which subsequently cool down due to radiation. From observations, we infer that this cooling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Luke Fushimi Benavitz , Jeffrey W. Reep , Lucas A. Tarr , Andy S. H. To

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

We discuss the evolution of solar coronal element abundances over an active region lifetime. Magneto-convection drives the complexity of magnetic fields that emerge above the photosphere. This complexity is dissipated, together with that of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 David H. Brooks , Deborah Baker , David M. Long. Paola Testa , Harry P. Warren

Several mechanisms have been proposed to account for the formation of solar prominences or filaments, among which direct injection and evaporation-condensation models are the two most popular ones. In the direct injection model, cold plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 C. J. Huang , J. H. Guo , Y. W. Ni , A. A. Xu , P. F. Chen

This paper presents observational evidence of the different dynamical behavior of neutral and ionized species in solar prominences. The analysis of a time-series of Sr II 4078 A and Na D spectra in a quiescent prominence yields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Eberhard Wiehr , Götz Stellmacher , Michele Bianda

A model for element abundance fractionation between the solar chromosphere and corona is further developed. The ponderomotive force due to Alfven waves propagating through, or reflecting from the chromosphere in solar conditions generally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Martin Laming

$\beta$ Cet, 31 Com and $\mu$ Vel represent the main stages through which late-type giants evolve during their lifetime (the Hertzsprung gap (31 Com), the rapid braking zone ($\mu$ Vel) and the core helium burning ``clump'' phase ($\beta$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Garcia-Alvarez , J. J. Drake , B. Ball , L. Lin , V. L. Kashyap

Observations of stellar prominences on young rapidly rotating stars provide unique probes of their magnetic fields out to many stellar radii. We compare two independently obtained datasets of the K3 dwarf Speedy Mic using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. J. Dunstone , A. Collier Cameron , J. R. Barnes , M. Jardine

Accurate forecasting of space weather requires knowledge of the source regions where solar energetic particles (SEP) and eruptive events originate. Recent work has linked several major SEP events in 2014, January, to specific features in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 David H. Brooks , Stephanie L. Yardley

Why the tenuous solar outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than the underlying layers remains one of the greatest challenge for solar modeling. Detailed diagnostics of the coronal thermal structure come from extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Gregory Fleishman , Sophie Musset , Véronique Bommier , Lindsay Glesener

Helioseismology has shown that the chemical composition of the Sun has changed over its lifetime. The surface abundance of helium and heavy elements is believed to have decreased by up to 10% relative to their initial values. However, this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Turcotte , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

Following the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP) observation, we have studied the chemical composition of the hot plasma in a sample of 146 X-ray bright pre-main sequence stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster. We report measurements of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Maggio , E. Flaccomio , F. Favata , G. Micela , S. Sciortino , E. D. Feigelson , K. V. Getman

We investigate the heating of an erupting prominence and loops associated with a coronal mass ejection and X-class flare. The prominence is seen in absorption in EUV at the beginning of its eruption. Later the prominence changes to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Jin-Yi Lee , John C. Raymond , Katharine K. Reeves , Yong-Jae Moon , Kap-Sung Kim

Solar filaments/prominences are common features in the Sun's atmosphere that contain cool chromospheric material suspended within the hot corona. However, the intricate topology of these structures and the mechanisms driving their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 X. F. Zhang , G. P. Zhou , C. L. Jin , Y. Z. Zhang , G. W. Li , Z. H. Shang , L. P. Li , S. B. Yang , S. H. Yang , J. X. Wang

Spectroscopic observations of prominence eruptions associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), although relatively rare, can provide valuable plasma and 3D geometry diagnostics. We report the first observations by the Interface Region…

The quiescent or dynamic nature of fine scale ray-like features in the sun corona, observed in visible light, is still an open question. Here, we show that most of daily and hourly periodic variations in visible light brightness of the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Nathalia Alzate , Simone Di Matteo