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Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in Partially Ionized Prominence Plasmas

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Multi-scale Dynamical Processes in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas

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Abstract

Prominences or filaments are cool clouds of partially ionized plasma living in the solar corona. Ground- and space-based observations have confirmed the presence of oscillatory motions in prominences and they have been interpreted in terms of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Existing observational evidence points out that these oscillatory motions are damped in short spatial and temporal scales by some still not well known physical mechanism(s). Since prominences are partially ionized plasmas, a potential mechanism able to damp these oscillations could be ion-neutral collisions. Here, we will review the work done on the effects of partial ionization on MHD waves in prominence plasmas.

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Acknowledgements

RS acknowledges support from a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship within the European Commission 7th Framework Program (PIEF-GA-2010-274716). RS and JLB acknowledge financial support from MICINN and FEDER funds through grant AYA2011-22486.

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  1. Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, Department of Mathematics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Roberto Soler

  2. Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain

    Jose Luis Ballester

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Soler, R., Ballester, J.L. (2012). Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in Partially Ionized Prominence Plasmas. In: Leubner, M., Vörös, Z. (eds) Multi-scale Dynamical Processes in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30442-2_13

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