TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Spicular Jet Propagation Applied to Lower Solar Atmosphere Model
AU - Dover, Fionnlagh Mackenzie
AU - Sharma, Rahul
AU - Erdélyi, Robertus
N1 - Funding information: F.M. and R.E. acknowledge the support of Science and Technology Facilities Council UK (grant No. ST/M000826/1) and The Royal Society (UK). F.M is grateful for the STFC studentship and acknowledges the useful insights provided by M. Allcock. R.S is grateful for support from the UKRI Future Leader Fellowship (RiPSAW—MR/T019891/1). Part of the computations used Sheffield University HPC cluster ShARC. Numerical results used the open source software MPIAMRVAC, mainly developed at K.U. Leuven. Visualizations of the data are done using Python, an open source and community-developed programming language.
PY - 2021/5/19
Y1 - 2021/5/19
N2 - We report a series of numerical experiments for the propagation of a momentum pulse representing a chromospheric jet, simulated using an idealized magnetohydrodynamic model. The jet in a stratified lower solar atmosphere is subjected to a varied initial driver (amplitude, period) and magnetic field conditions to examine the parameter influence over jet morphology and kinematics. The simulated jet captured key observed spicule characteristics including maximum heights, field-aligned mass motions/trajectories, and cross-sectional width deformations. Next, the jet features also show a prominent bright, bulb-like apex, similar to reported observed chromospheric jets, formed due to the higher density of plasma and/or waves. Furthermore, the simulations highlight the presence of not yet observed internal crisscross/knots substructures generated by shock waves reflected within the jet structure. Therefore we suggest verifying these predicted fine-scale structures in highly localized lower solar atmospheric jets, e.g., in spicules or fibrils by high-resolution observations, offered by the Daniel K. Inoyue Solar Telescope or otherwise.
AB - We report a series of numerical experiments for the propagation of a momentum pulse representing a chromospheric jet, simulated using an idealized magnetohydrodynamic model. The jet in a stratified lower solar atmosphere is subjected to a varied initial driver (amplitude, period) and magnetic field conditions to examine the parameter influence over jet morphology and kinematics. The simulated jet captured key observed spicule characteristics including maximum heights, field-aligned mass motions/trajectories, and cross-sectional width deformations. Next, the jet features also show a prominent bright, bulb-like apex, similar to reported observed chromospheric jets, formed due to the higher density of plasma and/or waves. Furthermore, the simulations highlight the presence of not yet observed internal crisscross/knots substructures generated by shock waves reflected within the jet structure. Therefore we suggest verifying these predicted fine-scale structures in highly localized lower solar atmospheric jets, e.g., in spicules or fibrils by high-resolution observations, offered by the Daniel K. Inoyue Solar Telescope or otherwise.
KW - solar corona
KW - Magnetohydrodynamical simulations
KW - Solar atmosphere
KW - solar spicules
KW - jets
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/abefd1
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/abefd1
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 913
JO - The Astrophysical Journal
JF - The Astrophysical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 19
ER -