Eruption of a helically twisted prominence |
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Authors: | Romano P. Contarino L. Zuccarello F. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Città Universitaria, Via S. Sofia 78, 95125 Catania, Italy |
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Abstract: | In this paper we analyze the eruption of a prominence, characterized by a helical-like structure and by a non-linear rising motion. We approximated the prominence as a cylindrical curved flux tube and estimated the behaviour of several geometrical parameters during the activation and the eruption phases. We determined that, at the onset of the activation, the number N of turns of a magnetic field line over the whole length of the prominence was 5.0, while the value of the ratio P/r0 between the pitch of the magnetic field lines and the prominence width was 0.45. These values are in good agreement with those predicted by the kink-mode instability. Moreover, we found a decrease of the total twist of one helical thread from 10 to 2 during the prominence eruption, indicating a relaxation of the magnetic field towards a less twisted configuration. We conclude that the prominence was initially destabilized by the kink-mode instability and, not succeeding in finding a new equilibrium configuration, it erupted. |
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