TY - JOUR
T1 - Small-scale solar jet formation and their associated waves and instabilities
AU - Skirvin, Samuel
AU - Verth, Gary
AU - González-Avilés, José Juan
AU - Shelyag, Sergiy
AU - Sharma, Rahul
AU - Guzmán, Francisco S.
AU - Ballai, Istvan
AU - Scullion, Eamon
AU - Silva, Suzana S.A.
AU - Fedun, Viktor
N1 - Funding information:
ASR V.F., G.V., and I.B. are grateful to The Royal Society (International Exchanges Scheme, collaboration with Mexico, Chile, and Brazil) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Grant No. ST/V000977/1 for the support provided. This work also greatly benefited from the discussions at the ISSI workshops ‘Toward Dynamic Solar Atmospheric Magneto-Seismology with New Generation Instrumentation’ and ‘The nature and physics of vortex flows in solar plasmas’. S.J.S. would like to thank STFC (UK) for the PhD studentship project reference (2135820). F.G. and J.J.G.A. thank Royal Society-Newton Mobility Grant NI160149, CIC-UMSNH 4.9, and CONACYT 258726 (Fondo Sectorial de Investigación para la Educación). J.J.G.A also thanks “Investigadores por México-CONACYT” (CONACYT Fellow), CONACYT LN 315829 (proyecto 2021) and CONACYT-AEM Grant 2017–01-292684 for partially support this work. The program ”Investigadores por México-CONACYT”, project 1045 sponsors the Space Weather Service Mexico (SCiESMEX). This research has also received financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 824135 (SOLARNET). The simulations by González-Avilés et al., 2017, González-Avilés et al., 2018, González-Avilés et al., 2019 were carried out in the facilities of “Centro de Supercómputo de Clima Espacial (CESCOM)” part of the “Laboratorio Nacional de Clima Espacial (LANCE)” and the Big Mamma cluster at the LIASC-IFM. Fig. 6, Fig. 7, Fig. 12 were generated with the use of the VisIt software package (Childs et al., 2012). Parts of this research have been undertaken with the assistance of resources and services from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), which is supported by the Australian Government. Some of the results were obtained using the OzSTAR national facility at Swinburne University of Technology. The OzSTAR program receives funding in part from the Astronomy National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) allocation provided by the Australian Government. This research was supported partially by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP160100746) and through Future Fellowship FT120100057 awarded to Dr. Sergiy Shelyag. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.
PY - 2023/2/15
Y1 - 2023/2/15
N2 - Studies on small-scale jets’ formation, propagation, evolution, and role, such as type I and II spicules, mottles, and fibrils in the lower solar atmosphere's energetic balance, have progressed tremendously thanks to the combination of detailed observations and sophisticated mathematical modelling. This review provides a survey of the current understanding of jets, their formation in the solar lower atmosphere, and their evolution from observational, numerical, and theoretical perspectives. First, we review some results to describe the jet properties, acquired numerically, analytically and through high-spatial and temporal resolution observations. Further on, we discuss the role of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic instabilities, namely Rayleigh–Taylor and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities, in jet evolution and their role in the energy transport through the solar atmosphere in fully and partially ionised plasmas. Finally, we discuss several mechanisms of magnetohydrodynamic wave generation, propagation, and energy transport in the context of small-scale solar jets in detail. This review identifies several gaps in the understanding of small-scale solar jets and some misalignments between the observational studies and knowledge acquired through theoretical studies and numerical modelling. It is to be expected that these gaps will be closed with the advent of high-resolution observational instruments, such as Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, and Solar CubeSats for Linked Imaging Spectropolarimetry, combined with further theoretical and computational developments.
AB - Studies on small-scale jets’ formation, propagation, evolution, and role, such as type I and II spicules, mottles, and fibrils in the lower solar atmosphere's energetic balance, have progressed tremendously thanks to the combination of detailed observations and sophisticated mathematical modelling. This review provides a survey of the current understanding of jets, their formation in the solar lower atmosphere, and their evolution from observational, numerical, and theoretical perspectives. First, we review some results to describe the jet properties, acquired numerically, analytically and through high-spatial and temporal resolution observations. Further on, we discuss the role of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic instabilities, namely Rayleigh–Taylor and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities, in jet evolution and their role in the energy transport through the solar atmosphere in fully and partially ionised plasmas. Finally, we discuss several mechanisms of magnetohydrodynamic wave generation, propagation, and energy transport in the context of small-scale solar jets in detail. This review identifies several gaps in the understanding of small-scale solar jets and some misalignments between the observational studies and knowledge acquired through theoretical studies and numerical modelling. It is to be expected that these gaps will be closed with the advent of high-resolution observational instruments, such as Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, and Solar CubeSats for Linked Imaging Spectropolarimetry, combined with further theoretical and computational developments.
KW - Instabilities
KW - MHD waves
KW - Solar jets
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85131378180
U2 - 10.1016/j.asr.2022.05.033
DO - 10.1016/j.asr.2022.05.033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131378180
SN - 0273-1177
VL - 71
SP - 1866
EP - 1892
JO - Advances in Space Research
JF - Advances in Space Research
IS - 4
ER -