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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

Spherical solar dynamo simulations are performed. Self-consistent, fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic system with a stably stratified layer below the convective envelope is numerically solved with a newly developed simulation code based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Youhei Masada , Kohei Yamada , Akira Kageyama

We present a 3D simulation of the dynamic emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from the top layer of the solar convection zone into the solar atmosphere and corona. It is found that after a brief initial stage of flux emergence during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Y. Fan

We analyze the characteristics of a quiescent polar prominence using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Initially, small-scale barb-like structures are evident on the solar disk, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Sudheer K. Mishra , Abhishek K. Srivastava , P. F. Chen

Small amplitude oscillations are a commonly observed feature in prominences/filaments. These oscillations appear to be of local nature, are associated to the fine structure of prominence plasmas, and simultaneous flows and counterflows are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 I. Arregui , J. L. Ballester

In this review many of the well known tools for the analysis of Complex systems are used in order to study the global coupling of the turbulent convection zone with the solar atmosphere where the magnetic energy is dissipated explosively.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Loukas Vlahos , Heinz Isliker

We explore the amplification of magnetic fields in the high-redshift Universe. For this purpose, we perform high-resolution cosmological simulations following the formation of primordial halos with \sim10^7 M_solar, revealing the presence…

The amplification and maintenance of the observed magnetic fields in the ICM are usually attributed to the turbulent dynamo action. This is generally derived employing a collisional MHD model. However, in the ICM the ion mean free path…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Santos-Lima , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Kowal , D. Falceta-Gonçalves , A. Lazarian , M. S. Nakwacki

Plasma turbulence occurs ubiquitously in space and astrophysical plasmas, mediating the nonlinear transfer of energy from large-scale electromagnetic fields and plasma flows to small scales at which the energy may be ultimately converted to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Gregory G. Howes , Sofiane Bourouaine

Context. Solar eruptions and high flare activity often accompany the rapid rotation of sunspots. The study of sunspot rotation and the mechanisms driving this motion are therefore key to our understanding of how the solar atmosphere attains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Z. Sturrock , A. W. Hood , V. Archontis , C. M. McNeill

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe. Extragalactic disks, halos and clusters have consistently been shown, via diffuse radio-synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation measurements, to exhibit magnetic field strengths ranging from…

The interiors of quiescent prominences are filled with turbulent flows. The evolution of upflow plumes, descending pillars, and vortex motions has been clearly detected in high-resolution observations. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Takafumi Kaneko , Takaaki Yokoyama

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

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

We present a series of numerical experiments that model the evolution of magnetic flux tubes with a different amount of initial twist. As a result of calculations, tightly twisted tubes reveal a rapid two-step emergence to the atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Shin Toriumi , Takehiro Miyagoshi , Takaaki Yokoyama , Hiroaki Isobe , Kazunari Shibata

Magnetic holes (MHs) are coherent magnetic field dips whose size ranges from fluid to kinetic scale, ubiquitously observed in the heliosphere and in planetary environments. Despite the longstanding effort in interpreting the abundance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Giuseppe Arrò , Francesco Califano , Francesco Pucci , Tomas Karlsson , Hui Li

The nature of flows in tornado-prominences is an open issue. While the AIA imager aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) allowed us to follow the global structure of a tornado-like prominence during five hours, the Interface Region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Krzysztof Barczynski , Brigitte Schmieder , Aaron W. Peat , Nicolas Labrosse , Pierre Mein , Nicole Mein

Observational aspects of solar flares relevant to the acceleration process of electrons and protons are reviewed and it is shown that most of these observations can be explained by the interaction with flare plasma of a power law energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahe Petrosian

High-resolution observations with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) reveal rotating magnetic field structures that extend from the solar surface into the chromosphere and the corona. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sven Wedemeyer , Oskar Steiner

Observations show that there are twisted magnetic flux tubes and plasma flow throughout the solar atmosphere. The main purpose of this work is to obtain the damping rate of sausage modes in the presence of magnetic twist and plasma flow. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Mohammad Sadeghi , Karam Bahari , Kayoomars Karami