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DOI
Moreno-Insertis, F.; Galsgaard, K.; Ugarte-Urra, I.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 673, Issue 2, pp. L211-L214.
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2008
Journal
Citations
206
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193
Description
Recent observations of coronal hole areas with the XRT and EIS
instruments on board the Hinode satellite have shown with unprecedented
detail the launching of fast, hot jets away from the solar surface. In
some cases these events coincide with episodes of flux emergence from
beneath the photosphere. In this Letter we show results of a
three-dimensional numerical experiment of flux emergence from the solar
interior into a coronal hole and compare them with simultaneous XRT and
EIS observations of a jet-launching event that accompanied the
appearance of a bipolar region in MDI magnetograms. The magnetic
skeleton and topology that result in the experiment bear a strong
resemblance to linear force-free extrapolations of the SOHO/MDI
magnetograms. A thin current sheet is formed at the boundary of the
emerging plasma. A jet is launched upward along the open reconnected
field lines with values of temperature, density, and velocity in
agreement with the XRT and EIS observations. Below the jet, a
split-vault structure results with two chambers: a shrinking one
containing the emerged field loops and a growing one with loops produced
by the reconnection. The ongoing reconnection leads to a horizontal
drift of the vault-and-jet structure. The timescales, velocities, and
other plasma properties in the experiment are consistent with recent
statistical studies of this type of event made with Hinode data.
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