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We carry out magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the quasi-static evolution and eruption of a twisted coronal flux rope under a coronal streamer built up by an imposed flux emergence at the lower boundary. The MHD model incorporates a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yuhong Fan

In this paper we present a numerical study of the time evolution of solar prominences embedded in sheared magnetic arcades. The prominence is represented by a density enhancement in a background stratified atmosphere and is connected to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Terradas , R. Soler , M. Luna , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Context. A large prominence was observed on September 24, 2013, for three hours (12:12 UT -15:12 UT) with the newly launched (June 2013) Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), THEMIS (Tenerife), the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 Brigitte Schmieder , Hui Tian , Arturo Lopez Ariste , Nicole Mein , Pierre Mein , Kevin Dalmasse , Leon Golub

Solar prominences are the most prominent large-scale structures observed above the solar limb in emission in chromospheric lines but in absorption in coronal lines. At the bottom of prominences often appears a bubble, with plumes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Wensi Wang , Rui Liu , Runbin Luo , Xiaoli Yan

Imaging solar coronal condensation forming prominences was difficult in the past, a situation recently changed by Hinode and SDO. We present the first example observed with SDO/AIA, in which material gradually cools through multiple EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Wei Liu , Thomas E. Berger , B. C. Low

Using the FLASH code, which solves the full set of the two-dimensional (2-D) non-ideal (resistive) time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, we study processes during the magnetic reconnection in a vertical gravitationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 P. Jelínek , M. Karlický , T. Van Doorsselaere , M. Bárta

Solar prominences, intricate structures on the Sun's limb, have been a subject of fascination due to their thread-like features and dynamic behaviors. Utilizing data from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), Chinese H_alpha Solar Explorer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Jincheng Wang , Dong Li , Chuan Li , Yijun Hou , Zhike Xue , Zhe Xu , Liheng Yang , Qiaoling Li

Both observations and simulations suggest that the solar filament eruption is closely related to magnetic flux emergence. It is thought that the eruption is triggered by magnetic reconnection between the filament and the emerging flux.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hongqiang Song , Zhe Xu , Yongyuan Xiang

Observations in the 171 AA channel of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of the space-borne Solar Dynamics Observatory show tornadoes-like features in the atmosphere of the Sun. These giant tornadoes appear as dark, elongated and apparently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sven Wedemeyer , Eamon Scullion , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Antonija Bosnjak , Patrick Antolin

Magnetic reconnection, a plasma process converting magnetic energy to particle kinetic energy, is often invoked to explain magnetic energy releases powering high-energy flares in astrophysical sources including pulsar wind nebulae and black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Solar prominences are clouds of cool plasma levitating above the solar surface and insulated from the million-degree corona by magnetic fields. They form in regions of complex magnetic topology, characterized by non-potential fields, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , R. Manso Sainz , A. Asensio Ramos , C. Beck , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , A. J. Diaz

Quiescent solar prominences show distinct small-scale dynamics in observations. Their internal density contrasts with the surrounding corona make them susceptible to Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities, leading to vertically structured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Madhurjya Changmai , Jack M. Jenkins , Rony Keppens

Solar prominences are magnetic structures incarcerating cool and dense gas in an otherwise hot solar corona. Prominences can be categorized as quiescent and active. Their origin and the presence of cool gas (~$10^4$K) within the hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Swati Routh , Snehanshu Saha , Atul Bhat , M. N. Sundar

We numerically study magnetic reconnection on different spatial scales and at different heights in the weakly ionized plasma of the low solar atmosphere (around $300-800$~km above the solar surface) within a reactive 2.5 D multi-fluid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin

The kinetic features of plasmoid chain formation and evolution are investigated by two dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations. Magnetic reconnection is initiated in multiple X points by the tearing instability. Plasmoids form and grow in…

The dense prominence material is believed to be supported against gravity through the magnetic tension of dipped coronal magnetic field. For quiescent prominences, which exhibit many gravity-driven flows, hydrodynamic forces are likely to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Andrew Hillier , Adriaan van Ballegooijen

Multi-wavelength observations of prominence eruptions provide an opportunity to uncover the physical mechanism of the triggering and the evolution process of the eruption. In this paper, we investigated an erupting prominence on October 14,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Haiqing Xu , Jiangtao Su , Jie Chen , Guiping Ruan , Arun Kumar Awasthi , Hongqi Zhang , Mei Zhang , Kaifan Ji , Yuzong Zhang , Jiajia Liu

Magnetized turbulence and magnetic reconnection are often invoked to explain the nonthermal emission observed from a wide variety of astrophysical sources. By means of fully-kinetic 2D and 3D PIC simulations, we investigate the interplay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi

Using high spatiotemporal resolution, multi-wavelength observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we present a detailed analysis of a small-scale chromospheric jet driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Zehao Tang , Yuandeng Shen , Chengrui Zhou , Surui Yao , Dongxu Liu , Xiaobo Li

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