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Magnetic reconnection is a proposed mechanism for nanojets associated with coronal heating. We investigate the characteristics of reconnection-driven nanojets just before and during a prominence eruption using the High Resolution Imager…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Tarhik Wallace , Patrick Antolin

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…

Plumes are one of the most ubiquitous features seen at the limb in polar coronal holes and are considered to be a source of high density plasma streams to the fast solar wind. We analyze STEREO observations of plumes and aim to reinterpret…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Scott W. McIntosh , Davina E. Innes , Bart De Pontieu , Robert J. Leamon

Where particle acceleration and plasma heating take place in relation to magnetic reconnection is a fundamental question for solar flares. We report analysis of an M7.7 flare on 2012 July 19 observed by SDO/AIA and RHESSI. Bi-directional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-04 Wei Liu , Qingrong Chen , Vahe' Petrosian

We present observations of recurrent active region coronal jets and derive their thermal and non-thermal properties, by studying the physical properties of the plasma simultaneously at the base footpoint, and along the outflow of jets. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Alin R. Paraschiv , Alina C. Donea , Philip G. Judge

Particle acceleration is one of the most significant features that are ubiquitous among space and cosmic plasmas. It is most prominent during flares in the case of the Sun, with which huge amount of electromagnetic radiation and high-energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Masumi Shimojo , Taro Sakao

It is commonly believed that blazar jets are relativistic magnetized plasma outflows from supermassive black holes. One key question is how the jets dissipate magnetic energy to accelerate particles and drive powerful multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Haocheng Zhang , Xiaocan Li , Dimitrios Giannios , Fan Guo , Hannes Thiersen , Markus Böttcher , Tiffany Lewis , Tonia Venters

Magnetic field embedded in a perfectly conducting fluid preserves its topology for all time. Although ionized astrophysical objects, like stars and galactic disks, are almost perfectly conducting, they show indications of changes in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-03-16 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , E. Vishniac , K. Kulpa-Dubel , K. Otmianowska-Mazur

Partially-ionized plasmas consist of charged and neutral particles whose mutual collisions modify magnetic reconnection compared with the fully-ionized case. The collisions alter the rate and locations of the magnetic dissipation heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-16 Fulvia Pucci , Alkendra Singh , Uma Gorti , Marco Velli , Neal Turner , Disha Varshney , Maria Elena Innocenti

In the solar atmosphere, the jets are ubiquitous and found to be at various spatia-temporal scales. They are significant to understand energy and mass transport in the solar atmosphere. Recently, the high-speed transition region jets are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Liping Yang , Hardi Peter , Jiansen He , Chuanyi Tu , Linghua Wang , Lei Zhang , Xueshang Feng

Multi-wavelength observations of an M 2.0 flare event on 2000 March 23 in NOAA active region 8910 provide us a good chance to study the detailed structure and dynamics of the magnetic reconnection region. In the process of the flare,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Leping Li , Jun Zhang

Magnetic reconnection changes the magnetic field topology and powers explosive events in astrophysical, space and laboratory plasmas. For flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the solar atmosphere, the standard model predicts the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-11 Rui Liu , Jeongwoo Lee , Tongjiang Wang , Guillermo Stenborg , Chang Liu , Haimin Wang

EUV imaging observations from several space missions (SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and SDO/AIA) have revealed a presence of propagating intensity disturbances in solar coronal loops. These disturbances are typically interpreted as slow magnetoacoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Elena Provornikova , Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang

Explosive energy release in the solar atmosphere is driven magnetically, but mechanisms triggering the onset of the eruption remain in debate. In the case of flares and CMEs, ideal or non-ideal instabilities usually occur in the corona, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Jiong Qiu

In the solar corona, magnetic reconnection occurs due to the finite resistivity of the plasma. At the same time, resistivity leads to ohmic heating. Therefore, the reconnecting current sheet should heat the surrounding plasma. This paper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Anton Reva , Sergey Bogachev , Ivan Loboda , Artem Ulyanov , Alexey Kirichenko

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

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

Solar jets are collimated plasma flows moving along magnetic field lines and accelerated at low altitude following magnetic reconnection. Several of them originate from anemone-shaped low-lying arcades and the most impulsive ones tend to be…

We report on numerical experiment of the recurrent onset of helical "blowout" jets in an emerging flux region (EFR). We find that these jets are running with velocities of $\sim 100-250\,\mathrm{kms^{-1}}$ and they transfer a vast amount of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 E. J. Lee , V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

Coronal Jets are transitory small-scale eruptions omnipresent in solar observations. Active regions jets produce significant perturbations on the ambient solar atmosphere and are believed to be generated by microflare reconnection. Multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Alin Razvan Paraschiv , Alina Donea
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