Bibcode
Martinez-Sykora, Juan; De Pontieu, B.; Hansteen, V.; Moreno-Insertis, F.
Referencia bibliográfica
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #403.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.878
Fecha de publicación:
5
2010
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Descripción
We have performed realistic 3D radiation MHD simulations of the solar
atmosphere. These simulations show jet-like features that are similar to
the type II spicules discovered with Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope.
These type II spicules have been associated with so-called rapid
blueshifted events (RBE's) on the solar disk, and with significant
blueward asymmetries in transition region and coronal lines at the
footpoints of coronal loops (discovered with Hinode's EIS). These
observational results and their ubiquity suggest they may play a
significant role in providing the corona with hot plasma. We will
present a detailed comparison of the properties of the simulated jets,
with those of type II spicules (observed with Hinode) and RBE's (with
ground-based instruments). We will present analysis of a wide variety of
synthetic emission lines from the simulations covering temperatures from
10,000 K to several million K, and compare their intensities,
velocities, line widths and asymmetry with those of the observed
phenomena. We will also show how the formation mechanism of these jets
(reconnection at tangential discontinuities) complicates efforts to
establish a firm link between observations of magnetic fields and of
chromospheric flows, and suggests that magnetic field observations at
chromospheric heights may be crucial to establish from observations how
these jets are formed.