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Solar nanojets are small-scale jets generated by component magnetic reconnection, characterized by collimated plasma motion perpendicular to the reconnecting magnetic field lines. As an indicator of nanoflare events, they are believed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Yuhang Gao , Hui Tian , David Berghmans , Yadan Duan , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Hechao Chen , Emil Kraaikamp

One of the possible mechanisms for heating the solar atmosphere is the magnetic reconnection occurring at different spatio-temporal scales. The discovery of fast bursty nanojets due to reconnection in the coronal loops has been linked to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Ritesh Patel , Vaibhav Pant

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

Reconnection-driven nanoflares are widely considered a leading mechanism for coronal-loop heating, but their direct fingerprints in the tenuous coronal plasma remain elusive. The recently discovered coronal nanojets offer a potential probe…

Recent observations reveal small-scale reconnection-driven plasma ejections, often termed nanojets, triggered by magnetic field interactions at slight misalignment angles. These fast, collimated plasma ejections are $\sim$1.5 Mm long and…

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

Detection and characterization of small-scale energetic events such as nanoflares and nanojets remain challenging owing to their short lifetimes, small spatial extent, and relatively low energy release, despite their potential role in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Samrat Sen , A. Ramada C. Sukarmadji , D. Nóbrega-Siverio , F. Moreno-Insertis , J. Martínez-Sykora , Patrick Antolin

A major coronal heating theory based on magnetic reconnection relies on the existence of braided magnetic field structures in the corona. In this small-angle reconnection scenario, numerical simulations indicate that the reconnected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 A. Ramada. C. Sukarmadji , Patrick Antolin

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

Recent observations of fast and bursty ``nanojets'' suggest novel diagnostics of nanoflare heating in the solar corona. The aim of this work is to investigate the presence and properties of reconnection outflows, similar to observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Gabriele Cozzo , Paola Testa , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Paolo Pagano , Fabio Reale , Franco Rappazzo , Viggo Hansteen , Bart De Pontieu

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

Coronal jets are short-lived eruptive features commonly observed in polar coronal holes and are thought to play a key role in the transfer of mass and energy into the solar corona. We describe unique contemporaneous observations of a…

Outflows perpendicular to the guide field are believed to be a possible signature of magnetic reconnection in the solar corona and specifically a way to detect the occurrence of ubiquitous small-angle magnetic reconnection. The aim of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 G. Cozzo , P. Pagano , F. Reale , P. Testa , A. Petralia , J. Martinez-Sykora , V. Hansteen , B. De Pontieu

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…

Extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray jets occur frequently in magnetically open coronal holes on the Sun, especially at high solar latitudes. Some of these jets are observed by white-light coronagraphs as they propagate through the outer corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Vadim M. Uritsky , Merrill A. Roberts , C. Richard DeVore , Judith T. Karpen

Context. The magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) has been proposed as a means of generating magnetohy- drodynamic turbulence and encouraging wave energy dissipation in the solar corona, particularly within transversely oscillating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , David Pontin

Transient collimated plasma ejections (jets) occur frequently throughout the solar corona, in active regions, quiet Sun, and coronal holes. Although magnetic reconnection is generally agreed to be the mechanism of energy release in jets,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter F. Wyper , C. Richard DeVore

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a basic physical process in fluids and magnetized plasmas, with applications successfully modelling e.g. exponentially growing instabilities observed at magnetospheric and heliospheric boundaries, in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Xiaohong Li , Jun Zhang , Shuhong Yang , Yijun Hou , Robert Erdelyi

Coronal-hole jets occur ubiquitously in solar coronal holes, at EUV and X-ray bright points associated with intrusions of minority magnetic polarity. The embedded-bipole model for these jets posits that they are driven by explosive, fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 J. T. Karpen , C. R. DeVore , S. K. Antiochos , E. Pariat

The Kelvin-Hemholtz (K-H) instability in the corona EUV jet is studied via 2.5 MHD numerical simulations. The jet results from magnetic reconnection due to the interation of the new emerging magnetic field and the pre-existing magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Tianle Zhao , Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Udo Ziegler
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