Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas

L Ni, H Ji, NA Murphy… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Magnetic reconnection has been intensively studied in fully ionized plasmas. However,
plasmas are often partially ionized in astrophysical environments. The interactions between …

Research progress based on observations of the New Vacuum Solar Telescope

XL Yan, Z Liu, J Zhang, Z Xu - Science China Technological Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the main scientific results made by the one-meter
New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), which was put into commission on 2010. NVST is …

A cancellation nanoflare model for solar chromospheric and coronal heating

ER Priest, LP Chitta, P Syntelis - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanoflare models for heating the solar corona usually assume magnetic braiding and
reconnection as the source of the energy. However, recent observations at record spatial …

Nature of the energy source powering solar coronal loops driven by nanoflares

LP Chitta, H Peter, SK Solanki - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. Magnetic energy is required to heat the corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun, to
millions of degrees. Aims. We study the nature of the magnetic energy source that is …

Plausibility of ultraviolet burst generation in the low solar chromosphere

L Ni, G Cheng, J Lin - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Ultraviolet (UV) bursts and Ellerman bombs (EBs) are small-scale magnetic
reconnection events taking place in the highly stratified, low solar atmosphere. The plasma …

Local energy transfer and dissipation in incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: The coarse-graining approach

D Manzini, F Sahraoui, F Califano, R Ferrand - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We derive the coarse-graining (CG) equations of incompressible Hall
magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) turbulence to investigate the local (in space) energy transfer …

A cancellation nanoflare model for solar chromospheric and coronal heating. II. 2D theory and simulations

P Syntelis, ER Priest, LP Chitta - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations at high spatial resolution have shown that magnetic flux cancellation
occurs on the solar surface much more frequently than previously thought, and so this led …

A solar filament disconnected by magnetic reconnection

Z Xue, X Yan, L Yang, J Wang, Q Li, L Zhao - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Aims. We aim to study a high-resolution observation of an asymmetric inflow magnetic
reconnection between a filament and its surrounding magnetic loops in active region NOAA …

Observations of small-scale energetic events in the solar transition region: explosive events, UV bursts and network jets

Z Huang, B Li, L Xia - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.06688, 2019 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we review observational aspects of three common small-scale energetic
events in the solar transition region (TR), namely: TR explosive events, ultraviolet bursts and …

Coronal condensations caused by magnetic reconnection between solar coronal loops

L Li, J Zhang, H Peter, LP Chitta, J Su… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Employing Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) multi-
wavelength images, we report the coronal condensation during the magnetic reconnection …