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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

Solar jets, characterized by small-scale plasma ejections along open magnetic field lines or the legs of large-scale coronal loops, play a crucial role in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Although spectral and EUV images have been…

Transient collimated plasma eruptions in the solar corona, commonly known as coronal (or X-ray) jets, are among the most interesting manifestations of solar activity. It has been suggested that these events contribute to the mass and energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 R. Lionello , T. TÖrÖk , V. S. Titov , J. E. Leake , Z. MikiĆ , J. A. Linker , M. G. Linton

Magnetic reconnection, a change of magnetic field connectivity, is a fundamental physical process in which magnetic energy is released explosively. It is responsible for various eruptive phenomena in the universe. However, this process is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 J. Q. Sun , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , Y. Guo , E. R. Priest , C. E. Parnell , S. J. Edwards , J. Zhang , P. F. Chen , C. Fang

Solar coronal jets are frequently occurring collimated ejections of solar plasma, originating from magnetically mixed polarity locations on the Sun of size scale comparable to that of a supergranule. Many, if not most, coronal jets are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-28 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Navdeep K. Panesar , Tanmoy Samanta , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Sabrina L. Savage

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

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

We report on active region EUV dynamic events observed simultaneously at high-cadence with SUMER/SoHO and TRACE. Although the features appear in the TRACE Fe ix/x 171A images as jets seen in projection on the solar disk, the SUMER spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , D. Innes , W. Curdt

The Sun produces highly dynamic and eruptive events that can drive shocks through the corona. These shocks can accelerate electrons, which result in plasma emission in the form of a type II radio burst. Despite the large number of type II…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Ciara A. Maguire , Eoin P. Carley , Pietro Zucca , Nicole Vilmer , Peter T. Gallagher

We present spectroscopic and imaging observations of small-scale reconnection events on the Sun. Using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observations, one reconnection event is first detected as IRIS jets with fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Dong Li , Leping Li , Zongjun Ning

High spatial- and temporal-resolution images of coronal hole regions show a dynamical environment where mass flows and jets are frequently observed. These jets are believed to be important for the coronal heating and the acceleration of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-31 K. Chandrashekhar , A. Bemporad , D. Banerjee , G. R. Gupta , L. Teriaca

Magnetic reconnection, the central engine that powers explosive phenomena throughout the Universe, is also perceived as one of the principal mechanisms for accelerating particles to high energies. Although various signatures of magnetic…

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

Context: The atmosphere of the quiet Sun is controlled by photospheric flows sweeping up concentrations of mixed polarity magnetic field. Along supergranule boundaries and junctions, there is a strong correlation between magnetic flux and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. E. Innes , A. Genetelli , R. Attie , H. E. Potts

Magnetic-field reconnection is believed to play a fundamental role in magnetized plasma systems throughout the Universe1, including planetary magnetospheres, magnetars and accretion disks around black holes. This letter present extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Yang Su , Astrid M. Veronig , Gordon D. Holman , Brian R. Dennis , Tongjiang Wang , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

We report on high-resolution imaging and spectral observations of eruptions of a spiral structure in the transition region, which were taken with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS), the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Chris J. Nelson , Jiajia Liu , Thomas Wiegelmann , Hui Tian , James A. Klimchuk , Yao Chen , Bo Li

Three extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) jets recurred in about one hour on 2010 September 17 in the following magnetic polarity of active region 11106. The EUV jets were observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Y. Guo , P. Démoulin , B. Schmieder , M. D. Ding , S. Vargas Domínguez , Y. Liu

We numerically study magnetic reconnection on different spatial scales and at different heights in the weakly ionized plasma of the low solar atmosphere (around $300-800$~km above the solar surface) within a reactive 2.5 D multi-fluid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin

Magnetic reconnection is thought to drive a wide variety of dynamic phenomena in the solar atmosphere. Yet the detailed physical mechanisms driving reconnection are difficult to discern in the remote sensing observations that are used to…

Jets often have a helical structure containing ejected plasma that is both hot and also cooler and denser than the corona. Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain how jets are primarily attributed to a magnetic reconnection between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Reetika Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Guillaume Aulanier , Véronique Bommier , Ramesh Chandra