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The magnetic configuration hosting prominences and their surrounding coro- nal structure is a key research topic in solar physics. Recent theoretical and observational studies strongly suggest that a helical magnetic flux rope is an es-…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Yang Guo

An integrated Magneto-Fluid model, that accords full treatment to the Velocity fields associated with the directed plasma motion, is developed to investigate the dynamics of coronal structures. It is suggested that the interaction of the…

Context. Plasma inflows accompany a variety of processes in the solar atmosphere such as heating of coronal loops and formation of prominences. Aims. We model a stratified solar atmosphere, within which a simulated prominence thread…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Chloe Sumner , Youra Taroyan

We report the first analyses of SDO/AIA observations of the formation of a quiescent polar crown prominence in a coronal cavity. The He II 304 \AA\ (log T_{max} ~ 4.8 K) data show both the gradual disappearance of the prominence due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-04 Thomas E. Berger , Wei Liu , B. C. Low

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 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 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

We investigate the nature of dissipative instability at the boundary (seen here as tangential discontinuity) between the viscous corona and the partially ionised prominence plasma in the incompressible limit. The importance of the partial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Ramon Oliver , Marios Alexandrou

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

Observations of stellar prominences on young rapidly rotating stars provide unique probes of their magnetic fields out to many stellar radii. We compare two independently obtained datasets of the K3 dwarf Speedy Mic using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. J. Dunstone , A. Collier Cameron , J. R. Barnes , M. Jardine

In many astrophysical systems, mixing between cool and hot temperature gas/plasma through Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence leads to the formation of an intermediate temperature phase with increased radiative losses that drive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-16 Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow , Inigo Arregui

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

We report on results of high resolution two fluid non-linear simulations of the Rayleigh Taylor Instability (RTI) at the interface between a solar prominence and the corona. These follow results reported earlier by Popescu Braileanu et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko

Solar prominences contain a significant amount of neutral species. The dynamics of the ionised and neutral fluids composing the prominence plasma can be slightly different if the collisional coupling is not strong enough. Large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 S. J. González Manrique , E. Khomenko , M. Collados , C. Kuckein , T. Felipe , P. Gömöry

Su et al. 2012 proposed a new explanation for filament formation and eruption, where filament barbs are rotating magnetic structures driven by underlying vortices on the surface. Such structures have been noticed as tornado-like prominences…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Su , Peter Gömöry , Astrid Veronig , Manuela Temmer , Tongjiang Wang , Kamalam Vanninathan , Weiqun Gan , Youping Li

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

The temperature of the solar atmosphere increases from thousands to millions of degrees moving from the lower layer (chromosphere) to the outermost one (corona), while the density drops accordingly. The mechanism behind this phenomenon,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Luca Barbieri , Lapo Casetti , Andrea Verdini , Simone Landi

Coronal rain consists of cool and dense plasma condensations formed in coronal loops as a result of thermal instability. Previous numerical simulations of thermal instability and coronal rain formation have relied on artificially adding a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , A. Popovas , M. Szydlarski , V. H. Hansteen

Solar filaments, also called solar prominences when appearing above the solar limb, are cold, dense materials suspended in the hot tenuous solar corona, consisting of numerous long, fibril-like threads. These threads are the key to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-29 Y. H. Zhou , P. F. Chen , J. Hong , C. Fang

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