Homologous Jet-driven Coronal Mass Ejections from Solar Active Region 12192

Panesar, Navdeep K., Alphonse C. Sterling, and Ronald L. Moore, Homologous Jet-driven Coronal Mass Ejections from Solar Active Region 12192, ApJ, 822, L23 (2016) (ADS)

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Solar X-ray jets have flare-like properties but clearly differ magnetically, since they require an action in close proximity to very large-scale magnetic fields that sometimes (if not usually) open out into the heliosphere itself. The Archive contains other related items, but this one explicitly introduces twist. Presumably this emanates from geostrophic shear at the lower-left footpoint region, but then it is physically confusing because the twist at the far end (lower right) seems to be interfacing a photospheric region where curl(B) = 0. Maybe this is possible in some dynamic sense.

Date: 2020 May 20