Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsh51a1664r&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SH51A-1664
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
[7513] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Coronal Mass Ejections, [7524] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Magnetic Fields, [7531] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Prominence Eruptions
Scientific paper
Quiescent prominences, by definition, are huge ``clouds'' of cool, dense plasma overlying rarefied hot corona and supported by a complex magnetic field anchored in the photosphere along the magnetic polarity inversion line. One of the most prominent features in their dynamics is formation, growth and collapse of bubble/cavities filled by coronal plasma and emerging, often repeatedly, under a prominence body. As such, prominence/corona interface itself is subject of fundamental plasma instabilities, which include development of a regular series of plumes and spikes typical to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, often followed by a sudden collimated mass upflow, which, in nonlinear stage having an explosive character may be responsible for CMEs. These were only recently studied in detail with high cadence, high resolution data obtained from the Hinode satellite. Even more surprises are brought by the SDO/AIA instrument showing the Sun's atmosphere in 12 visible and EUV wavelengths. AIA multi-wavelength images in a temperature range from 105 ~K to 2 × 106 ~K combined with the Hinode/SOT data show that plasma inside the prominence cavity, being as expected, at coronal temperatures, in fact exceeds the temperature of the ambient corona. We suggest that an energetically open highly dynamic processes releasing energy at the prominence/cavity interface accompanied by the ``radiative exchange'', may cause additional increase of temperature and/or density inside cavity. Given pervasive character of prominences, future studies will allow us to perform quantitative and statistical analysis, and reveal relations between the size of cavity, its temperature, and magnetic properties.
Berger Thomas E.
Ryutova Margarita
Title Alan M.
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