Polymeric jets throw light on the origin and nature of the forest of solar spicules

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العنوان: Polymeric jets throw light on the origin and nature of the forest of solar spicules
المؤلفون: Dey, Sahel, Chatterjee, Piyali, N., Murthy O. V. S., Korsos, Marianna B., Liu, Jiajia, Nelson, Christopher J., Erdelyi, Robertus
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Astrophysics
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics - Fluid Dynamics
الوصف: Spicules are plasma jets, observed in the dynamic interface region between the visible solar surface and the hot corona. At any given time, it is estimated that about 3 million spicules are present on the Sun. We find an intriguing parallel between the simulated spicular forest in a solar-like atmosphere and the numerous jets of polymeric fluids when both are subjected to harmonic forcing. In a radiative magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulation with sub-surface convection, solar global surface oscillations are excited similarly to those harmonic vibrations. The jets thus produced match remarkably well with the forests of spicules detected in observations of the Sun. Taken together, the numerical simulations of the Sun and the laboratory fluid dynamics experiments provide insights into the mechanism underlying the ubiquity of jets: the nonlinear focusing of quasi-periodic waves in anisotropic media of magnetized plasma as well as polymeric fluids under gravity is sufficient to generate a forest of spicules on the Sun.
Comment: Published in Nature Physics. Video files are available at https://rdcu.be/cZdld
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01522-1
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04493
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2211.04493
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1038/s41567-022-01522-1