Rayleigh-Taylor instability in prominences from numerical simulations including partial ionization effects

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Table 1

Parameters of the equilibrium configuration.

	Corona	Prominence

T [kK]	400	5
ρ [kg m^-3]	3.7 × 10^-12	2.9 × 10^-10
v_a [km s^-1]	450	53
c_s [km s^-1]	75	8.3
η [m² s^-1]	7.3	3.3 × 10³
η_A [m² s^-1]	0	2.3 × 10⁸
ξ _n	0	0.9

Notes. The table shows the values of temperature (T), density (ρ), Alfvén (v_a) and sound (c_s) speeds, Ohmic diffusion coefficient (η, Eq. (6)), ambipolar diffusion coefficient (η_A, Eq. (5)), and fraction of neutrals (ξ_n = ρ_n/ρ).

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