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Magnetic reconnection is the most likely mechanism responsible for the high temperature events that are observed in strongly magnetized locations around the temperature minimum in the low solar chromosphere. This work improves upon our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-26 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

On 2016 September 20, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph observed an active region during its earliest emerging phase for almost 7 hours. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hui Tian , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Hardi Peter , Jie Zhao , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen

Multiwavelength observations of the propagating disturbances (PDs), discovered by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), are analyzed to determine its driving mechanism and physical nature. Two magnetic…

The heating of the solar chromosphere and corona is a long-standing puzzle in solar physics. Hinode observations show the ubiquitous presence of chromospheric anemone jets outside sunspots in active regions. They are typically 3 to 7 arc…

Simulations of antiparallel reconnection have shown collimated electron jets outflowing from the x-point, and associated highly elongated "outer electron diffusion regions." New PIC simulations with ion/electron mass ratios as large as 1836…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Martin Goldman , Giovanni Lapenta , David Newman , Stefan Markidis , Haihong Che

A light bridge is a prominent structure commonly observed within a sunspot. Its presence usually triggers a wealth of dynamics in a sunspot, and has a lasting impact on sunspot evolution. However, the fundamental structure of light bridges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Song Feng , Yuhu Miao , Ding Yuan , Zhongquan Qu , Valery M. Nakariakov

We use data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to study the most likely formation of a forced reconnection region and associated plasma blobs, triggered by jet-like structures in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Sudheer K. Mishra , A. K. Srivastava , S. P. Rajaguru , P. Jelínek

Observations of gamma-ray-bursts and jets from active galactic nuclei reveal that the jet flow is characterized by a high radiative efficiency and that the dissipative mechanism must be a powerful accelerator of non-thermal particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Lorenzo Sironi , Maria Petropoulou , Dimitrios Giannios

Solar macrospicules are beam-like cool plasma ejections of size in-between spicules and coronal jets, which can elucidate potential connections between plasma jetting activity at different scales. With high-resolution observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Yadan Duan , Yuandeng Shen , Hechao Chen , Zehao Tang , Chenrui Zhou , Xinping Zhou , Song Tan

Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas is a ubiquitous phenomenon spanning the range from laboratory to intergalactic scales, yet it remains poorly understood and relatively little studied. Here, we present results from a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 James E Leake , Vyacheslav S Lukin , Mark G Linton

Penumbral Microjets (PMJs) are short-lived jets found in the penumbra of sunspots, first observed in wide-band Ca H-line observations as localized brightenings, and are thought to be caused by magnetic reconnection. Earlier work on PMJs has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-07 Ainar Drews , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Recurrent chromospheric fan-shaped jets highlight the highly dynamic nature of the solar atmosphere. They have been named as ''light walls'' or ''peacock jets'' in high-resolution observations. In this study, we examined the underlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-28 Annu Bura , Tanmoy Samanta , Avijeet Prasad , Ronald L. Moore , Alphonse C. Sterling , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Arun Surya

$\delta$-sunspots are known to be favourable locations for fast and energetic events like flares and CMEs. The photosphere of this type of sunspots has been thoroughly investigated in the past three decades. The atmospheric conditions in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Carolina Robustini , Jorrit Leenaarts , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez

Coronal jets are short-lived eruptive features commonly observed in polar coronal holes and are thought to play a key role in the transfer of mass and energy into the solar corona. We describe unique contemporaneous observations of a…

Evidence is beginning to be put forward that demonstrates the role of the chromosphere in supplying energy and mass to the corona. We aim to assess the role of chromospheric jets in active region dynamics. Using a combination of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. J. Morton

Magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in powering solar flares, production of energetic particles, and plasma heating. However, where the magnetic reconnections occur, how and where the released magnetic energy is transported, and how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Sijie Yu , Bin Chen , Katharine K. Reeves , Dale E. Gary , Sophie Musset , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Lindsay Glesener

The commonly observed jets provide critical information on the small-scale energy release in the solar atmosphere. We report a near disk-center jet on 2010 July 20, observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. In this event, the standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chang Liu , Na Deng , Rui Liu , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Shuo Wang , Haimin Wang

Magnetic reconnection is widely believed to be the fundamental process in the solar atmosphere that underlies magnetic energy release and particle acceleration. This process is responsible for the onset of solar flares, coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , C. Richard DeVore , Spiro K. Antiochos

In this paper, we present the detailed analysis of recurrent homologous jets originating from an emerging negative magnetic flux at the edge of an Active Region. The observed jets show multi-thermal features. Their evolution shows high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Jiajia Liu , Yuming Wang , Robertus Erdelyi , Rui Liu , Scott W. McIntosh , Tingyu Gou , Jun Chen , Kai Liu , Lijuan Liu , Zonghao Pan

We study the emergence of a toroidal flux tube into the solar atmosphere and its interaction with a pre-existing field of an active region. We investigate the emission of jets as a result of repeated reconnection events between colliding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 V. Archontis , K. Tsinganos , C. Gontikakis