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arxiv: 1509.02123 · v1 · pith:Z3XD44SYnew · submitted 2015-09-07 · 🌌 astro-ph.SR

Magnetic reconnection as a source of jets from a penumbral intrusion into a sunspot umbra

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We present the results of high resolution co-temporal and co-spatial photospheric and chromospheric observations of sunspot penumbral intrusions. The data was taken with the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) on the Canary Islands. Time series of Ca\,II H images show a series of transient jets extending roughly 3000 km above a penumbral intrusion into the umbra. For most of the time series jets were seen along the whole length of the intruding bright filament. Some of these jets develop a clear $\lambda$-shaped structure, with a small loop appearing at their footpoint and lasting for around a minute. In the framework of earlier studies, the observed transient $\lambda$ shape of these jets strongly suggests that they are caused by magnetic reconnection between a curved arcade-like or flux-rope like field in the lower part of the penumbral intrusion and the more vertical umbral magnetic field forming a cusp-shaped structure above the penumbral intrusion.

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