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Magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized solar chromosphere is studied in 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations including radiative cooling and ambipolar diffusion. A Harris current sheet with and without a guide field is…

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Solar jets are impulsive, collimated plasma ejections that are triggered by magnetic reconnection. They are observed for many decades in various temperatures and wavelengths, therefore their kinematic characteristics, such as velocity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Brigitte Schmieder , Reetika Joshi , Ramesh Chandra

Using high spatial and temporal data from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we present unambiguous observations of recurrent two-sided loop jets caused by magnetic reconnection between erupting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bo Yang , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Zhe Xu , Junchao Hong , Haidong Li , Hechao Chen

We present two-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of line-tied asymmetric magnetic reconnection in the context of solar flare and coronal mass ejection current sheets. The reconnection process is made asymmetric along the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. A. Murphy , M. P. Miralles , C. L. Pope , J. C. Raymond , H. D. Winter , K. K. Reeves , D. B. Seaton , A. A. van Ballegooijen , J. Lin

We aim at investigating the formation of jet-like features in the lower solar atmosphere, e.g. chromosphere and transition region, as a result of magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection as occurring at chromospheric and transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Y. Ding , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , Q. M. Lu , K. Vanninathan , Z. Huang

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 interaction between interplanetary small-scale magnetic flux ropes and the magnetic field in the ambient solar wind is an important topic to understand- ing the evolution of magnetic structures in the heliosphere. Through a survey of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hui Tian , Shuo Yao , Qiugang Zong , Jiansen He , Yu Qi

Magnetic reconnection at small spatial scales is a fundamental driver of energy release and plasma dynamics in the lower solar atmosphere. We present observations of a brightening in an active region, captured in high-resolution data from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 J. M. da Silva Santos , E. Dunnington , R. Jarolim , S. Danilovic , S. Criscuoli

Solar flare emissions in the chromosphere often appear as elongated ribbons on both sides of the magnetic polarity inversion line (PIL), which has been regarded as evidence of a typical configuration of magnetic reconnection. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Haimin Wang , Chang Liu

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in space and astrophysical plasmas in which oppositely directed magnetic fields changes its connectivity and eventually converts its energy into kinetic and thermal energy of the plasma.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-20 Rong Lin Jiang , Kazunari Shibata , Hiroaki Isobe , Cheng Fang

The solar corona is highly structured by bunches of magnetic field lines forming either loops, or twisted flux ropes representing prominences/filaments, or very dynamic structures such as jets. The aim of this paper is to understand the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Garima Karki , Brigitte Schmieder , Pooja Devi , Ramesh Chandra , Nicolas Labrosse , Reetika Joshi , Bernard Gelly

Space solar missions such as {\it Yohkoh} and {\it RHESSI} observe the hard X- and gamma-ray emission from energetic electrons in impulsive solar flares. Their energization mechanism, however, is unknown. In this paper, we suggest that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Tanuma , K. Shibata

We report on a fan-shaped set of high-speed jets above a strongly magnetized light bridge (LB) of a sunspot observed in the H$\alpha$ line. We study the origin, dynamics and thermal properties of the jets using high-resolution imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Carolina Robustini , Jorrit Leenaarts , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

A three-dimensional numerical experiment of the launching of a hot and fast coronal jet followed by several violent eruptions is analyzed in detail. These events are initiated through the emergence of a magnetic flux rope from the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fernando Moreno-Insertis , Klaus Galsgaard

We present the results of a set of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetic flux emergence from below the photosphere into the corona that include a uniform and horizontal coronal magnetic field mimicking a pre-existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Galsgaard , F. Moreno-Insertis , V. Archontis , A. Hood

We use H$\alpha$ imaging spectroscopy taken via the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) to investigate the occurrence of fan-shaped jets at the solar limb. We show evidence for near-simultaneous photospheric reconnection at a sunspot edge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 A. Reid , V. M. J. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , T. Samanta

The heliospheric current sheet (HCS) is an important large-scale structure of the heliosphere, and, for the first time, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission enables us to study its properties statistically close to the Sun. We visually…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Naïs Fargette , Jonathan P. Eastwood , Tai D. Phan , Lorenzo Matteini , Luca Franci

Using high spatiotemporal resolution, multi-wavelength observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we present a detailed analysis of a small-scale chromospheric jet driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Zehao Tang , Yuandeng Shen , Chengrui Zhou , Surui Yao , Dongxu Liu , Xiaobo Li

We analyze H-alpha images, soft X-ray profiles, magnetograms, extreme ultra-violet images and radio observations of two homologous flare events (M1.4/1N and M9.6/2B) on 20 November 2003 in the active region NOAA 10501 and study properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Pankaj Kumar , P. K. Manoharan , Wahab Uddin

We present observations of a chromospheric jet and growing "loop" system that show new evidence of a fan-spine topology resulting from magnetic flux emergence. This event, occurring in an equatorial coronal hole on 2007 February 9, was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Wei Liu , Thomas E. Berger , Alan M. Title , Theodore D. Tarbell , B. C. Low