太阳物理研究组知识库

Different from the classical emerging-flux model for solar jets, recent studies proposed that the great majority of solar coronal jets are triggered by minifilament eruptions and two magnetic reconnection processes should take place during the course, named as external reconnection (breakout reconnection) and internal reconnection (flare reconnection). With the excellent data of the Solar Dynamics Observatory, we present the observational signatures of these two magnetic reconnection processes during a solar coronal jet that occurred in a huge coronal hole of northern hemisphere. The jet was triggered by the eruption of a minifilament that located at a coronal bright point in the coronal hole. Weak bidirectional outflows were observed when the erupting minifilament approached the ambient open field, ejecting along the triggered jet spire and the jet base simultaneously. In addition, a flare current sheet occurred after the eruption of the minifilament, connecting the jet spire and the jet bright point (or flare). We suggest the occurrence of the weak bidirectional outflows and the flare current sheet correspond to the external and the internal reconnections, respectively. Prior to the eruption of the minifilament and the jet, photospheric magnetic flux cancellation maintained for more than 7 hr in the source region, and the positive flux decreased for about 28.6% during this period. So, consistent with the recent observations, the trigger mechanism of the minifilament eruption and the following jet in this event may be flux cancellation rather than flux emergence.