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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

Solar prominences are long-lived cool and dense plasma curtains in the hot and rarefied outer solar atmosphere or corona. The physical mechanism responsible for their formation and especially for their internal plasma circulation has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We present observations and magnetic field modeling of the large polar crown prominence that erupted on 2010 December 6. Combination of SDO/AIA and STEREO$\_$Behind/EUVI allows us to see the fine structures of this prominence both at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Yingna Su , Adriaan van Ballegooijen

It is not fully understood why some solar filaments erupt while others do not. Those that do typically undergo a slow rise followed by an acceleration phase, though this transition requires further investigation. Erupting prominences have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Dion Donné , Yuhao Zhou , Hebe Cremades , Rony Keppens

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

Where particle acceleration and plasma heating take place in relation to magnetic reconnection is a fundamental question for solar flares. We report analysis of an M7.7 flare on 2012 July 19 observed by SDO/AIA and RHESSI. Bi-directional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-04 Wei Liu , Qingrong Chen , Vahe' Petrosian

Two large northern polar crown prominences that erupted on 2010 April 13 and 2010 August 1 were analysed using images obtained from the Extreme UltraViolet Imager on the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft. Several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Anand D. Joshi , Nandita Srivastava

Recent high-resolution observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have reawakened interest in the old and fascinating phenomenon of solar tornado-like prominences. This class of prominences was first introduced by Pettit (1932),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-10 Olga Panasenco , Sara F. Martin , Marco Velli

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process converting magnetic energy into not only plasma energy but also particle energy in various astrophysical phenomena. In this letter, we show a unique dataset of a solar flare where…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Lei Lu , Li Feng , Alexander Warmuth , Astrid M. Veronig , Jing Huang , Siming Liu , Weiqun Gan , Zongjun Ning , Beili Ying , Guannan Gao

Solar eruptions are sudden ejections of coronal mass and magnetic fields accompanied by intense energy release. The eruptive structure does not always erupt successfully, but sometimes fails to escape the Sun after initiation. The failure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves , Peter R. Young , Astrid M. Veronig , Xingyao Chen , Sijie Yu , Bin Chen , Bin Zhuang

Solar flares are major space weather events that result from the explosive conversion of stored magnetic energy into bulk motion, plasma heating, and particle acceleration. While the standard flare model has proven highly successful in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter F. Wyper , Jiong Qiu , C. Richard DeVore

Filament longitudinal oscillations have been observed on the solar disk in H$\alpha$. We intend to find an example of the longitudinal oscillations of a prominence, where the magnetic dip can be seen directly, and examine what is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Qingmin Zhang , Pengfei Chen , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We report findings from 0.2" resolution observations of the 2007 October 03 quiescent prominence observed with the Solar Optical Telescope on the Hinode satellite. The observations show clear ejections from the top of the quiescent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrew Hillier , Hiroaki Isobe , Hiroko Watanabe

Prominences, or filaments, are a striking phenomenon in the solar atmosphere. Besides their own rich features and dynamics, they are related to many other activities, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In the past…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-08 P. F. Chen

We study the triggering mechanism of a limb-prominence eruption and the associated coronal mass ejection near AR 12342 using SDO and LASCO/SOHO observations. The prominence is seen with an embedded flux thread (FT) at one end and bifurcates…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 P. Vemareddy , N. Gopalswamy , B. Ravindra

Observations of solar prominences reveal a complex, dynamic flow field within them. The flow field within quiescent prominences is characterized by long ``threads'' and dark ``bubbles'' that fall and rise (respectively) in a thin sheet. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-23 Neal Hurlburt , Thomas Berger

Transient collimated plasma ejections (jets) occur frequently throughout the solar corona, in active regions, quiet Sun, and coronal holes. Although magnetic reconnection is generally agreed to be the mechanism of energy release in jets,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter F. Wyper , C. Richard DeVore

Solar filaments/prominences exhibit rotational motion during different phases of their evolution from their formation to eruption. We have observed the rotational/vortical motion in the photosphere near the ends of ten filaments during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 Sajal Kumar Dhara , B. Ravindra , Ravinder Kumar Banyal

Magnetic reconnection is thought to be one of the main energy-dissipation mechanisms fueling energy to the plasma in the vicinity of a black hole. Indeed, plasmoids formed through magnetic reconnection may play a key role in $\gamma$-ray,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Antonios Nathanail , Vasilis Mpisketzis , Oliver Porth , Christian M. Fromm , Luciano Rezzolla

Prominence eruption is closely related to coronal mass ejections and is an important topic in solar physics. Spectroscopic observation is an effective way to explore the plasma properties, but the spectral observations of eruptive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Jianchao Xue , Hui Li , Yang Su