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Solar prominence eruption
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Moore, Ronald L. |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Description | The prominence that erupts in a prominence eruption is a magnetic structure in the chromosphere and corona. It is visible in chromospheric images by virtue of chromospheric-temperature plasma suspended in the magnetic field, and belongs to that large class of magnetic structures appropriately called filaments because of their characteristic sinewy sigmoidal form. Hence, the term "filament eruption" is used interchangeably with the term "prominence eruption". The magnetic field holding a filament is prone to undergo explosive changes in configuration. In these upheavals, because the filament material is compelled by its high conductivity to ride with the magnetic field that threads it, this material is a visible tracer of the field motion. The part of the magnetic explosion displayed by the entrained filament material is the phenomenon known as a filament eruption, the topic of this article. This article begins with a description of basic observed characteristics of filament eruptions, with attention to the magnetic fields, flares, and coronal mass ejections in which erupting filaments are embedded. The present understanding of these characteristics in terms of the form and action of the magnetic field is then laid out by means of a rudimentary three-dimensional model of the field. The article ends with basic questions that this picture leaves unresolved and with remarks on the observations needed to probe these questions. |
| File Size | 3369655 |
| Page Count | 16 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19980201083 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3qv8g25w |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1998-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Solar Physics Coronas Chromosphere Stellar Mass Ejection Plasmas Physics Images Embedding Explosions Solar Prominences Magnetic Field Configurations Three Dimensional Models Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |