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Blazars are relativistic magnetized plasma outflows from supermassive black holes that point very close to our line of sight. Their emission is nonthermal dominated and highly variable across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Haocheng Zhang , Xiaocan Li , Dimitrios Giannios , Fan Guo , Yi-Hsin Liu , Lingyi Dong

Plasmoid instability is usually accounted for the onset of fast reconnection events observed in astrophysical plasmas. However, the measured reconnection rate from observations can be one order of magnitude higher than that derived from MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Abdullah Zafar , Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Ahmad Ali

Context. Solar blowout jets are a distinct subclass of ubiquitous extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray coronal jets. Aims. Most existing models of blowout jets prescribe an initial magnetic field configurations and apply ad-hoc changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yajie Chen , Hardi Peter , Damien Przybylski , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Sudip Mandal

We report the smallest coronal jets ever observed in the quiet Sun with recent high resolution observations from the High Resolution Telescopes (HRI-EUV and HRI-Ly{\alpha}) of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard Solar Orbiter. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Zhenyong Hou , Hui Tian , David Berghmans , Hechao Chen , Luca Teriaca , Udo Schuhle , Yuhang Gao , Yajie Chen , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang , Xianyong Bai

We report on observations of recurrent jets by instruments onboard the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Hinode spacecrafts. Over a 4-hour period on July 21st 2013, recurrent coronal jets…

Recent observations suggest that magnetic flux cancellation may play a crucial role in heating the Sun's upper atmosphere (chromosphere, transition region, corona). Here, we intended to validate an analytic model for magnetic reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Sung-Hong Park

Vortex-type motions have been measured by tracking bright points in high-resolution observations of the solar photosphere. These small-scale motions are thought to be determinant in the evolution of magnetic footpoints and their interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Balmaceda , S. Vargas Domínguez , J. Palacios , I. Cabello , V. Domingo

We report observations of type III radio bursts at decimeter wavelengths (type IIIdm bursts) -- signatures of suprathermal electron beams propagating in the low corona -- using the new technique of radio dynamic imaging spectroscopy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Bin Chen , Timothy S. Bastian , Stephen M. White , Dale E. Gary , Richard A. Perley , Michael P. Rupen , Brent R. Carlson

We numerically studied magnetic reconnection in a high $\beta$ hydrogen-helium plasma at different altitudes from the photosphere to the upper chromosphere. The time dependent ionization degrees were included to get more realistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Abdullah Zafar , Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Udo Ziegler

We present simultaneous observations of three recurring jets in EUV and soft X-ray (SXR), which occurred in an active region on 2007 June 5. By comparing their morphological and kinematic characteristics in these two different wavelengths,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Liheng Yang , Yunchun Jiang , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Ruisheng Zheng , Junchao Hong

Coronal condensation and rain are a crucial part of the mass cycle between the corona and chromosphere. In some cases, condensation and subsequent rain originate in the magnetic dips formed during magnetic reconnection. This provides a new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hongqiang Song

We examine in greater detail five events previously identified as being sources of strong transient coronal outflows in a solar polar region in Hinode/EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) Doppler data. Although relatively compact or faint and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Alphonse C. Sterling , Conrad Schwanitz , Louise K. Harra , Nour E. Raouafi , Navdeep K. Panesar , Ronald L. Moore

A jet is a considerable amount of plasma being ejected from the chromosphere or lower corona into the higher corona and is a common phenomenon. Usually, a jet is triggered by a brightening or a flare, which provides the first driving force…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-06 Jiajia Liu , Yuming Wang , Rui Liu , Quanhao Zhang , Kai Liu , Chenglong Shen , S. Wang

Self-organization in continuous systems is associated with dissipative processes. In particular, for magnetized plasmas, it is known as magnetic relaxation, where the magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy of flow through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Satyam Agarwal , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Shangbin Yang

Tearing instability, also known as plasmoid instability, is an effective mechanism to speed up magnetic reconnection process, working in a wide range of magnetized plasma systems with different spatial scales, ionization degrees, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Zehao Tang

Solar microflares are ubiquitous in the solar corona, yet their driving mechanisms remain a subject of ongoing debate. Using high-resolution coronal observations from the Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), we identified about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Qingmei Wang , Yi Bi , Hongfei Liang , Jiayan Yang , Liufan Gong

We study the formation and evolution of jets in the solar atmosphere using numerical simulations of partially ionized plasma. The two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic equations with ion+electron and neutral hydrogen components are used in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-19 J. J. González-Avilés , K. Murawski , T. V. Zaqarashvili

Long-lasting, intense, stellar X-ray flares may approach conditions of breaking magnetic confinement and evolving in open space. We explore this hypothesis with hydrodynamic simulations of flares occurring in a non-confined corona: model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Reale , F. Bocchino , G. Peres

Coronal jets represent important manifestations of ubiquitous solar transients, which may be the source of significant mass and energy input to the upper solar atmosphere and the solar wind. While the energy involved in a jet-like event is…

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