English

Chromospheric plasma ejection above a pore

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2020-03-18 v1

Abstract

We present high spatial resolution observations of short lived transients, ribbon and jets like events above a pore in Ca II H images where fine structure like umbral dots, lightbridge and penumbral micro filaments are present in the underlying photosphere. We found that current layers are formed at the edges of convective fine structure due to the shear between their horizontal field and the ambient vertical field. High vertical electric current density patches are observed in the photosphere around these events which indicates the formation of a current sheet at the reconnection site. In the framework of past studies, low altitude reconnection could be the mechanism that produces such events. The reconnection is caused by an opposite polarity field produced by the bending of field lines by convective downflows at the edge of the pore fine structures.

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@article{arxiv.2002.04503,
  title  = {Chromospheric plasma ejection above a pore},
  author = {L. Bharti and B. Shobha and C. Quintero Noda and C. Joshi and U. Pandya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04503},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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