Observational Study of Recurrent Jets Confined by Active Region Loops

Abstract

With high spatial and temporal resolution data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), we present observations of recurrent jets confined by coronal loops that occurred in the active region NOAA 11726 from 02:00 to 12:00 UT on 2013 April 21. Three jets are clearly observed by the NVST in H α line. These recurrent jets originate from the emerging bipolar magnetic region at the north of the active region. Half of them are related to the magnetic flux emergence, and the others are associated with the magnetic flux cancellation. Their velocities range from 80.6 ± 1.3 km s ^−1 to 433.6 ± 20.1 km s ^−1 . Though they eject from the same source region, their shapes, sizes, and eruptive trajectories are not exactly the same. Most of them consist of cool (dark) and hot (bright) components. The differential emission measure distributions of the recurrent jets suggest that they are multithermal structures. The rotation directions of the recurrent jets are not consistent. Eight of them have a counterclockwise rotation, and the others have a clockwise rotation. The 12 recurrent jets are classified as blowout (accounting for 33%) and standard (accounting for 67%) jets. The velocity and density range of the blowout jets are slightly wider than those of the standard jets. The blowout jets have lower temperatures than the standard jets. These observational results suggest that the recurrent jets are probably triggered by recurrent magnetic reconnection between the emerging bipolar magnetic region and its overlying large-scale active region loops.

Keywords

• Solar magnetic reconnection
• Solar coronal transients
• Solar magnetic fields