Research progress based on observations of the New Vacuum Solar Telescope

XL Yan, Z Liu, J Zhang, Z Xu - Science China Technological Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the main scientific results made by the one-meter
New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), which was put into commission on 2010. NVST is …

Shocks and instabilities in the partially ionised solar atmosphere

A Hillier, B Snow - Advances in Space Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The low solar atmosphere is composed of mostly neutral particles, but the importance of the
magnetic field for understanding observed dynamics means that interactions between …

Possible evidence for shear-driven Kelvin–Helmholtz instability along the boundary of fast and slow solar wind in the corona

D Telloni, L Adhikari, GP Zank, L Zhao… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports the first possible evidence for the development of the Kelvin–Helmholtz
(KH) instability at the border of coronal holes separating the associated fast wind from the …

A formation mechanism for the large plumes in the prominence

J Wang, X Yan, Z Xue, L Yang, Q Li, H Chen… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. To understand the formation mechanism of large plumes in solar prominences, we
investigate the formation process of two such phenomena. Methods. We studied the …

Coronal cooling as a result of mixing by the nonlinear Kelvin–Helmholtz instability

A Hillier, I Arregui - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations show cool, oscillating prominence threads fading when observed in
cool spectral lines and appearing in warm spectral lines. A proposed mechanism to explain …

Kinetic simulation of nonequilibrium Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

CD Lin, KH Luo, YB Gan, ZP Liu - Communications in Theoretical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently developed discrete Boltzmann method (DBM), which is based on a set of
uniform linear evolution equations and has high parallel efficiency, is employed to …

Numerical simulations of turbulence in prominence threads induced by torsional oscillations

S Díaz-Suárez, R Soler - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Threads are the main constituents of prominences. They are dynamic structures
that display oscillations, usually interpreted as magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves …

Unraveling the untwisting process and upward mass transfer of a twisted prominence driven by vortex motion

XF Zhang, GP Zhou, CL Jin, YZ Zhang, GW Li… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Solar filaments or prominences are common features in the Sun's atmosphere that
contain cool chromospheric material suspended within the hot corona. However, the …

Theory of fluid instabilities in partially ionized plasmas: an overview

R Soler, JL Ballester - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Partially ionized plasmas (PIP) are essential constituents of many astrophysical
environments, including the solar atmosphere, the interstellar medium, molecular clouds …

Multilayered Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in the solar corona

D Yuan, Y Shen, Y Liu, H Li, X Feng… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instability is commonly found in many astrophysical,
laboratory, and space plasmas. It could mix plasma components of different properties and …