Small-Scale Jetlike Features in Penumbral Chromospheres

Katsukawa, Y., T. E. Berger, K. Ichimoto, B. W. Lites, S. Nagata, T. Shimizu, R. A. Shine, Y. Suematsu, T. D. Tarbell, A. M. Title, and S. Tsuneta, Small-Scale Jetlike Features in Penumbral Chromospheres, Science, 318, 1594 (2007) (ADS)

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What could make more sense? The microscopic jets that Hinode observes with the penumbra of a large sunspot surely must work this way. Is this then evidence that the minifilament eruption scenario is not universal?

Date: 2019 December 15