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Recent studies have shown that the elemental abundances in the Sun are anomalous when compared to most (about 85%) nearby solar twin stars. Compared to its twins, the Sun exhibits a deficiency of refractory elements (those with condensation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 I. Ramirez , M. Asplund , P. Baumann , J. Melendez , T. Bensby

Solar prominences usually have a horizontally elongated body with many feet extending to the solar surface, resembling a multi-arch bridge with many bridge piers. The basic mechanism by which solar prominences acquire these common…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Huanxin Chen , Chun Xia , Hechao Chen

The background field is assumed to play prime role in the erupting structures like prominences. In the flux rope models, the critical decay index ($n_c$) is a measure of the rate at which background field intensity decreases with height…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Vasantharaju , P. Vemareddy , B. Ravindra , V. H. Doddamani

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

The Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) obtains daily full-Sun above-the-limb coronal observations in linear polarization, allowing for the first time a diagnostic of the coronal magnetic field direction in quiescent prominence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 U. Bak-Steslicka , S. E. Gibson , Y. Fan , C. Bethge , B. Forland , L. A. Rachmeler

A solar filament is a dense cool condensation that is supported and thermally insulated by magnetic fields in the rarefied hot corona. Its evolution and stability, leading to either an eruption or disappearance, depend on its coupling with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-04 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , L. Li

We present observational evidence of apparent plasma rotational motions in the feet of a solar prominence. Our study is based on spectroscopic observations taken in the He I 1083.0 nm multiplet with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Orozco Suárez , A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno

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

Prominences in the solar corona are hundredfold cooler and denser than their surroundings, with a total mass of 1.e13 up to 1.e15 g. Here we report on the first comprehensive simulations of three-dimensional, thermally and gravitationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Patrick Antolin , Oliver Porth

Solar prominences and filaments (prominences projected against the solar disk) exhibit a large variety of fine structures which are well observed down to the resolution limit of ground-based telescopes. We describe the morphological aspects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Heinzel

We report observations of a unique, large prominence eruption that was observed in the He II 304 {\AA} passband of the the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager/Full Sun Imager telescope aboard Solar Orbiter on 15-16 February 2022. Observations from…

Triggering process for prominence instability and consequent CMEs is not fully understood. Prominences are maintained by the Lorentz force against the gravity, therefore reduction of the prominence mass due to the coronal rain may cause the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Z. Vashalomidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. Kukhianidze , G. Ramishvili , A. Hanslmeier , P. Gomory

Context. Prominence eruptions provide key observations to understand the launch of coronal mass ejections as their cold plasma traces a part of the unstable magnetic configuration. Aims. We select a well observed case to derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Pooja Devi , Pascal Démoulin , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Bhuwan Joshi

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

The ponderomotive force is suggested to be the main mechanism to produce the so-called first ionization potential (FIP) effect - the enrichment of low FIP elements observed in the outer solar atmosphere. It is well known that the ionization…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Juan Martínez-Sykora , Bart De Pontieu , Viggo H. Hansteen , Paola Testa , Q. M. Wargnier , Mikolaj Szydlarski

Abundances of elements comprising solar energetic particles (SEPs) come with two very different patterns. Historically called "impulsive" and "gradual" events, they have been studied for 40 years, 20 years by the Wind spacecraft. Gradual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Donald V. Reames

Observations have shown the presence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHi) in solar prominences. Effects due to partial ionization of the prominence plasma may influence the KHi onset. We study the triggering of the KHi in an interface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Llorenç Melis , Roberto Soler

Continuum emission from a solar flare observed with the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board the Hinode satellite is used to obtain the radiometric calibration of the instrument. The flare had a GOES class of M8, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Peter R. Young , Biswajit Mondal

We report on the annual variation of quiet-time suprathermal ion composition for C through Fe using Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)/Ultra-Low Energy Isotope Spectrometer (ULEIS) data over the energy range 0.3 MeV/nuc to 1.28 MeV/nuc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 B. L. Alterman , Mihir I. Desai , Maher A. Dayeh , G. M. Mason , George Ho

The elemental composition in the coronae of low-activity solar-like stars appears to be related to fundamental stellar properties such as rotation, surface gravity, and spectral type. Here we use full-Sun observations from the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-05 David H. Brooks , Deborah Baker , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Harry P. Warren