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Type of talk
Seminar
Speaker
P. Kayshap
Affiliation
ARIES, Nainital
Venue
New Auditorium
Abstract

We report first observations of a small scale flux-tube that undergoes kinking and triggers the macrospicule and a jet on November 11, 2010 in the north polar corona. The small-scale flux-tube emerged well before the triggering of macrospicule and as the time progresses the two opposite halves of this omega shaped flux-tube bent transversely and approached towards each other. After 2 minutes, the two approaching halves of the kinked flux-tube touch each-other and internal reconnection as well as energy release takes place at the adjoining location and a macrospicule was launched which goes upto a height of ~12 Mm. Plasma starts moving horizontally as well as vertically upward along with the onset of macrospicule and thereafter converts into a large-scale jet in which the core denser material reaches upto 40 Mm with a projected speed of 95 km/s in its fast rising phase. We perform 2-D numerical simulation by considering the VAL-C initial atmospheric conditions to understand the physical scenario of the observed macrospicule and associated jet. The simulation results show that reconnection generated velocity pulse in the lower solar atmosphere steepens into slow shock and the cool plasma is driven behind it in form of macrospicule. The horizontal surface waves also appeared with the shock fronts at different heights, which most likely drove and spread the large-scale jet associated with the macrospicule.

Email Speaker
pradeep.kashyap@aries.res.in
About Speaker

P. Kayshap is working as a Senior Research Fellow at ARIES. He is pursuing the solar research on the study of trigger mechanisms of various kinds of transients and plasma dynamics in the solar atmosphere, as well as their MHD aspects to understand physical significance.

Email Host
aks@aries.res.in
Host Name
Dr. A.K. Srivastava
Host Phone (ext/mob)
9319693141