A Microfilament-eruption Mechanism for Solar Spicules
Sterling, Alphonse C. and Ronald L. Moore, A Microfilament-eruption Mechanism for Solar Spicules, ApJ, 828, L9 (2016) (ADS)
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A cartoon that ineptly describes a revolutionary idea about jets: are they not
all just
filament eruptions, but just tiny ones?
The reason that this seems like an inept cartoon (to the Archivist, at least)
is that a filament eruption is just that, observationally; the filament rises
into the heliosphere - this terminal stage is not shown here.
It is interesting physically because the closed field supporting the
filament mass should accompany the eruption, leading to open fields of
both polarities.
Otherwise one is probably asking too much of a Maxwell's Demon in
selecting the loose ends (a nonsense concept) of field lines
(a dangerous concept) to reconnect (a popular concept).
Note, from this cartoon, that the jet flow into the corona is on unipolar
field, so that the density enhancement as seen by a coronagraph would
require interpretation as a
pseudo-streamer.
A proper filament eruption leading to a CME would result in a domain
with minority polarity.
A cartoon that ineptly describes a revolutionary idea about jets: are they not all just filament eruptions, but just tiny ones? The reason that this seems like an inept cartoon (to the Archivist, at least) is that a filament eruption is just that, observationally; the filament rises into the heliosphere - this terminal stage is not shown here. It is interesting physically because the closed field supporting the filament mass should accompany the eruption, leading to open fields of both polarities. Otherwise one is probably asking too much of a Maxwell's Demon in selecting the loose ends (a nonsense concept) of field lines (a dangerous concept) to reconnect (a popular concept).
Note, from this cartoon, that the jet flow into the corona is on unipolar field, so that the density enhancement as seen by a coronagraph would require interpretation as a pseudo-streamer. A proper filament eruption leading to a CME would result in a domain with minority polarity.