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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…

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We observe simultaneously the Ca II K, Ca II 8542 and H-beta emissions in solar prominences at high spatial and spectral resolution. We confirm a branching in the emission relations of Ca II and H-beta. This is related to non-thermal line…

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The dynamics of prominence fine structures is a challenge to understand the formation of cool plasma prominence embedded in the hot corona. Recent observations from the high resolution Hinode/SOT telescope allow us to compute velocities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Schmieder , R. Chandra , A. Berlicki , P. Mein

The only prominent line of singly ionized helium in the visible spectral range, helium-II 4686 A, is observed together with the helium-I 5015 A singlet and the helium-I 4471 A triplet line in solar prominences. The sodium emission, NaD2, is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-26 Renzo Ramelli , Goetz Stellmacher , Eberhard Wiehr , Michele Bianda

We report on a statistical study of prominence eruptions (PEs) using a catalog of these events routinely imaged by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 304 \r{A} pass band. Using an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 S. Yashiro , N. Gopalswamy , S. Akiyama , P. A. Mäkelä

In this chapter we review observations and techniques for measuring both bulk flows in prominences and prominence mass. Measuring these quantities is essential to development and testing of models discussed throughout this book. Prominence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-04 T. A. Kucera

The goal of this investigation is to study, in the line of previous works, the level of velocity fluctuations in different scenarios of the TJ-II stellarator. The method followed consists in measuring the apparent Doppler temperature of C4+…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Zurro , A. Baciero

Aims. In the low-collisional, partially ionized plasma (PIP) of solar prominences, uncharged emitters might show different signatures of magnetic line broadening than charged emitters. We investigate if the widths of weak metall emissions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 E. Wiehr , H. Balthasar , G. Stellmacher , M. Bianda

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

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

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

Broad-band images of the solar chromosphere in the Ca II H&K line cores around active regions are covered with fine bright elongated structures called bright fibrils. The mechanisms that form these structures and cause them to appear bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Sepideh Kianfar , Jorrit Leenaarts , Sanja Danilovic , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Carlos José Díaz Baso

Aims: We investigate a new method to for obtaining the plasma parameters of solar prominences observed in the Mgii h&k spectral lines by comparing line profiles from the IRIS satellite to a bank of profiles computed with a one-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Aaron W. Peat , Nicolas Labrosse , Brigitte Schmieder , Krzysztof Barczynski

Solar prominences are partially ionised plasmas displaying flows and oscillations. These oscillations show time and spatial damping and, commonly, have been explained in terms of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. We study the spatial damping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Carbonell , P. Forteza , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Over the last two decades the uninterrupted, high-resolution observations of the Sun, from the excellent range of telescopes aboard many spacecraft complemented with observations from sophisticated ground-based telescopes have opened up a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Tsiropoula , K. Tziotziou , I. Kontogiannis , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , Y. Suematsu

The measurement of Doppler velocities in spectroscopic solar observations requires a reference for the local frame of rest. The rotational and radial velocities of the Earth and the rotation of the Sun introduce velocity offsets in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Dan Kiselman , Mats Carlsson

We present a 40 minute time series of filtergrams from the red and the blue wing of the \halpha line in an active region near the solar disk center. From these filtergrams we construct both Dopplergrams and summed ``line center'' images.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oystein Langangen , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Yong Lin

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

We investigate the properties of a `solar tornado' observed on 15 July 2014, and aim to link the behaviour of the plasma to the internal magnetic field structure of the associated prominence. We made multi-wavelength observations with high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 P. J. Levens , B. Schmieder , N. Labrosse , A. López Ariste

On 12 March 1996 we obtained observations of the quiet Sun with the SUMER instrument. The observa- tions were sequences of 15-20 second exposures of ultraviolet emission line profiles and of the neighboring continua. These data contain…

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