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We perform a theoretical and numerical study of anti-parallel 2D magnetic reconnection with asymmetries in the density and reconnecting magnetic field strength in addition to a bulk flow shear across the reconnection site in the plane of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 C. E. Doss , C. M. Komar , P. A. Cassak , F. D. Wilder , S. Eriksson , J. F. Drake

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

We consider strongly stratified forced turbulence in a plane-parallel layer with helicity and corresponding large-scale dynamo action in the lower part and non-helical turbulence in the upper. The magnetic field is found to develop strongly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-23 Sarah Jabbari , Axel Brandenburg , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii

We discuss the possible role of reconnection in electro-magnetically dominated cores of relativistic AGN jets. We suggest that reconnection may proceed in a two-fold fashion: initial explosive collapse on the Alfven time-scale of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Maxim Lyutikov

Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process crucial for heating the solar corona and generating the solar wind, but resolving and characterizing it on the Sun remains challenging. Using high-quality data from the…

In models of fast magnetic reconnection, flux transfer occurs within a small portion of a current sheet triggering stored magnetic energy to be thermalized by shocks. When the initial current sheet separates magnetic fields which are not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. W. Longcope , S. J. Bradshaw

Observations of coronal jets increasingly suggest that local fragmentation and intermittency play an important role in the dynamics of these events. In this work we investigate this fragmentation in high-resolution simulations of jets in…

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High-resolution imaging-spectroscopy movies of solar active region NOAA 10998 obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope show very bright, rapidly flickering, flame-like features that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hiroko Watanabe , Gregal Vissers , Reizaburo Kitai , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten

We investigate various dynamic processes including magnetic reconnection, chromospheric evaporation, and coronal rain draining in two limb solar flares through imaging and spectroscopic observations from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Ke Yu , Y. Li , Jie Hong , De-Chao Song , M. D. Ding

The impact of high-speed jets -- dynamic pressure enhancements in the magnetosheath -- on the Earth's magnetopause has been observed to trigger local magnetic reconnection. We perform a three-dimensional hybrid simulation to study the…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 J. Ng , L. -J. Chen , Y. Omelchenko

Hydrodynamic jets are unstable to the kink instability (m=1 mode in cylindrical geometry) owing to the centripetal force, which increases the transverse displacement of the jet. When the jet moves along a magnetic field, then the Lorentz…

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Hypersonic, highly collimated, mass outflows ({\it jets}) are a ubiquitous phenomena in astrophysics. While the character of the jets differ, many exhibit some form of quasi-periodic clumping indicating the jet source is episodic or {\it…

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Strongly Doppler-shifted Stokes $V$ profiles have been detected in the quiet Sun with the IMaX instrument on-board the SUNRISE stratospheric balloon-borne telescope. High velocities are required in order to produce such signals, hence these…

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We present a comprehensive study of a series of recurrent jets that occurred at the periphery of the NOAA active region 12114 on 2014 July 7. These jets were found to share the same source region and exhibited rotational motions as they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lei Lu , Li Feng , Ying Li , Dong Li , Zongjun Ning , Weiqun Gan

Microscopic instability and macroscopic flow pattern resulting from colliding plasmas are studied analytically in support of laboratory experiments. The plasma flows are assumed to stream radially from two separate centers. In a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Mikhail Malkov , Vladimir Sotnikov

With the observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory}, we investigate the coronal hole boundaries (CHBs) of an equatorial extension of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Ting Li , Yang Liu

Coronal jets are ubiquitous, collimated million-degree ejections that contribute to the energy and mass supply of the upper solar atmosphere and the solar wind. Solar Orbiter provides an unprecedented opportunity to observe fine-scale jets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , R. Joshi , E. Sola-Viladesau , D. Berghmans , D. Lim

We present data analysis and interpretation of an M1.4-class flare observed with the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) on April 30, 2002. This event, with its footpoints occulted by the solar limb, exhibits a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-04 Wei Liu , Vahe' Petrosian , Brian R. Dennis , Yan Wei Jiang

We report the simultaneous extreme ultraviolet observation of magnetic reconnection inflow and outflow in a flare on 2010 August 18 observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory}. We found that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shinsuke Takasao , Ayumi Asai , Hiroaki Isobe , Kazunari Shibata