6 papers
On the Support of Solar Prominence Material by the Dips of a Coronal Flux Tube
Andrew Hillier, Adriaan van Ballegooijen
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 ma…
Can Superflares Occur on Our Sun?
Kazunari Shibata, Hiroaki Isobe, Andrew Hillier +9
Recent observations of solar type stars with the Kepler satellite by Maehara et al. have revealed the existence of superflares (with energy of 10^33 - 10^35 erg) on Sun-like stars,…
Numerical Simulations of the Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in the Kippenhahn-Schlüter Prominence Model
Andrew Hillier, Hiroaki Isobe, Kazunari Shibata +1
The launch of the Hinode satellite has allowed unprecedented high resolution, stable images of solar quiescent prominences to be taken over extended periods of time. These new imag…
Observations of Plasma Blob Ejection from a Quiescent Prominence by Hinode SOT
Andrew Hillier, Hiroaki Isobe, Hiroko Watanabe
We report findings from 0.2" resolution observations of the 2007 October 03 quiescent prominence observed with the Solar Optical Telescope on the Hinode satellite. The observations…
Evolution of the Kippenhahn-Schlueter Prominence Model Magnetic Field Under Cowling Resistivity
Andrew Hillier, Kazunari Shibata, Hiroaki Isobe
We present the results from 1.5D diffusion simulations of the Kippenhahn-Schlueter prominence model magnetic field evolution under the influence of the ambipolar terms of Cowling r…
Spicule Dynamics over Plage Region
Tetsu Anan, Reizaburo Kitai, Tomoko Kawate +14
We studied spicular jets over a plage area and derived their dynamic characteristics using Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) high-resolution images. The target plage region was…