Solar Tadpole Shaped Jets responable for heating up the Corona?

Images from IRIS show the tadpole-shaped jets containing pseudo-shocks streaking out from the Sun.

Credits: Abhishek Srivastava IIT (BHU)/Joy Ng, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Are Solar Tadpole Shaped Jets responsable for heating up the Corona? At least a new discovery of pseudo-shocks adds another player besides Alven Waves and Nanoflares to that debate. According to NASA, it may contribute heat to the corona during specific times, namely when the Sun is active, such as during solar maximums.

When recently analyzing data from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, scientists noticed unique elongated jets emerging from sunspots and rising 4,500 km up into the inner corona. The jets, with bulky heads and rarefied tails, looked to the scientists like tadpoles swimming up through the Sun’s layers.

Using computer simulations matching the events, they determined these pseudo-shocks could carry enough energy and plasma to heat the inner corona.

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