Blob Formation and Ejection in Coronal Jets due to the Plasmoid and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities | |
Ni, Lei1,2; Zhang, Qing-Min3; Murphy, Nicholas A.4; Lin, Jun1 | |
刊名 | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL |
2017-05-20 | |
卷号 | 841期号:1页码:16 |
关键词 | instabilities magnetic reconnection magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) methods: numerical Sun: activity |
ISSN号 | 0004-637X |
DOI | 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6ffe |
英文摘要 | We perform 2D resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of coronal jets driven by flux emergence along the lower boundary. The reconnection layers are susceptible to the formation of blobs that are ejected in the jet. Our simulation with low plasma beta (Case I) shows that magnetic islands form easily and propagate upward in the jet. These islands are multithermal and thus are predicted to show up in hot channels (335 angstrom and 211 angstrom) and the cool channel (304 angstrom) in observations by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The islands have maximum temperatures of 8 MK, lifetimes of 120 s, diameters of 6 Mm, and velocities of 200 km s(-1). These parameters are similar to the properties of blobs observed in extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) jets by AIA. The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability develops in our simulation with moderately high plasma beta (Case II) and leads to the formation of bright vortex-like blobs above the multiple high magnetosonic Mach number regions that appear along the jet. These vortex-like blobs can also be identified in the AIA channels. However, they eventually move downward and disappear after the high magnetosonic Mach number regions disappear. In the lower plasma beta case, the lifetime for the jet is shorter, the jet and magnetic islands are formed with higher velocities and temperatures, the current-sheet fragments are more chaotic, and more magnetic islands are generated. Our results show that the plasmoid instability and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability along the jet are both possible causes of the formation of blobs observed at EUV wavelengths. |
WOS关键词 | X-RAY JETS ; CHROMOSPHERIC ANEMONE JETS ; EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET JETS ; MOVING MAGNETIC FEATURES ; H-ALPHA SURGES ; NUMERICAL-SIMULATION ; FLUX EMERGENCE ; SOLAR MICROFLARES ; ATOMIC DATABASE ; RECONNECTION |
WOS研究方向 | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
语种 | 英语 |
出版者 | IOP PUBLISHING LTD |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000402310500013 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/23021] |
专题 | 中国科学院紫金山天文台 |
通讯作者 | Ni, Lei |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Yunnan Observ, 396 Yangfangwang, Guandu Dist 650216, Kunming, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Astron Megasci, 20A Datun Rd, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Dark Matter & Space Sci, Purple Mt Observ, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 4.Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ni, Lei,Zhang, Qing-Min,Murphy, Nicholas A.,et al. Blob Formation and Ejection in Coronal Jets due to the Plasmoid and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2017,841(1):16. |
APA | Ni, Lei,Zhang, Qing-Min,Murphy, Nicholas A.,&Lin, Jun.(2017).Blob Formation and Ejection in Coronal Jets due to the Plasmoid and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,841(1),16. |
MLA | Ni, Lei,et al."Blob Formation and Ejection in Coronal Jets due to the Plasmoid and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 841.1(2017):16. |
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