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The collision of magnetic reconnection jets is studied by means of a three dimensional numerical simulation at kinetic scale, in the presence of a strong guide field. We show that turbulence develops due to the jets collision producing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 F. Pucci , W. H. Matthaeus , A. Chasapis , S. Servidio , L. Sorriso-Valvo , V. Olshevsky , D. L. Newman , M. V. Goldman , G. Lapenta

Aims. Recurring jets are observed in the solar atmosphere, which can erupt intermittently. By the observation of intermittent jets, we want to understand the causes of periodic eruption characteristics. Methods. We report intermittent jets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Qiuzhuo Cai , Guiping Ruan , Chenxi Zheng , Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Yao Chen , Jiangtao Su , Yang Liu , Jihong Liu , Wenda Cao

The kinetic features of secondary magnetic reconnection in a single flux rope undergoing internal kink instability are studied by means of three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations. Several signatures of secondary magnetic reconnection…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Markidis , G. Lapenta , G. L. Delzanno , P. Henri , M. V. Goldman , D. L. Newman , T. Intrator , E. Laure

A broad jet was observed in a weak magnetic field area at the edge of active region NOAA 11106. The peculiar shape and magnetic environment of the broad jet raised the question of whether it was created by the same physical processes of…

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

Solar jets, collimated plasma ejections driven by magnetic reconnection, play a vital role in energy transport and coronal heating. While rotational motions in jets are often attributed to magnetic field untwisting, alternative explanatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Lei Huang , Yang Guo , Zhen Li , Jinhan Guo , Mingde Ding

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

We present and discuss multi-wavelength observations of five homologous recurrent solar jets that occurred in active region NOAA 11133 on 11 December, 2010. These jets were well observed by the Solar Dynamic observatory (SDO) with high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ramesh Chandra , G. R. Gupta , Sargam Mulay , Durgesh Tripathi

Kinematic signatures of the jet, winds, multicavities, and episodic shells arising in the unified model of bipolar outflows developed in Shang et al.\ (2020), in which an outflow forms by radially directed, wide-angle toroidally magnetized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hsien Shang , Chun-Fan Liu , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Liang-Yao Wang

Observations of reconnection jets in the solar corona are emerging as a possible diagnostic to study highly elusive coronal heating. Such nanojets can be observed in coronal loops and they have been linked to nanoflares. However, while…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Paolo Pagano , Patrick Antolin , Antonio Petralia

We report on observation of the unusual kind of solar microflares, presumably associated with the so-called "topological trigger" of magnetic reconnection, which was theoretically suggested long time ago by Gorbachev et al. (Sov. Ast. 1988,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Yurii V. Dumin , Boris V. Somov

Within the framework of resistive MHD, implementing the C7 equilibrium atmosphere model and a 3D potential magnetic field realistic configuration, we simulate the formation of a plasm jet with the morphology, upward velocity up to 130 km/s…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-29 J. J. González-Avilés , F. S. Guzmán , V. Fedun , G. Verth , R. Sharma , S. Shelyag , S. Regnier

Using high-resolution observations from the 1.6 m New Solar Telescope (NST) operating at the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), we report direct evidence of merging/reconnection of cool H$\alpha$ loops in the chromosphere during two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Pankaj Kumar , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Kyung-Suk Cho , Haimin Wang

Magnetic reconnection in the solar corona is thought to be unstable to the formation of multiple interacting plasmoids, and previous studies have shown that plasmoid dynamics can trigger MHD waves of different modes propagating outward from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-25 Elena Provornikova , J. Martin Laming , Vyacheslav S. Lukin

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in various astrophysical, space, and laboratory environments. Many pieces of evidence for magnetic reconnection have been uncovered. However, its specific processes that could be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 X. Cheng , Y. Li , L. F. Wan , M. D. Ding , P. F. Chen , J. Zhang , J. J. Liu

We report observations of an eruptive X2.8 flare on 2013 May 13, which shows two distinct episodes of energy release in the impulsive phase. The first episode is characterized by the eruption of a magnetic flux rope, similar to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-07 Tingyu Gou , Astrid M. Veronig , Ewan Dickson , Aaron Hernandez-Perez , Rui Liu

Magnetic reconnection is a universal process that powers explosive energy release events such as solar flares, geomagnetic substorms, and some astrophysical jets. A characteristic feature of magnetic reconnection is the production of fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Chengcai Shen , Bin Chen , Katharine K. Reeves , Sijie Yu , Vanessa Polito , Xiaoyan Xie

High-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of active region NOAA 11271 were obtained with the spectro-polarimeter on board Hinode to analyze the properties of an anomalous flow in the photosphere in a sunspot penumbra. We detect a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

In the solar corona, magnetic reconnection usually takes place at the singular configuration of magnetic field, in particular near a magnetic null owing to its high susceptibility to perturbations. In this Letter, we report a rare X-shaped…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Q. Sun , X. Cheng , Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , Y. Li

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