| Issue |
A&A
Volume 627, July 2019
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| Article Number | L5 | |
| Number of page(s) | 12 | |
| Section | Letters to the Editor | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936027 | |
| Published online | 03 July 2019 | |
Letter to the Editor
Hot prominence spicules launched from turbulent cool solar prominences⋆
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
e-mail: chitta@mps.mpg.de
2
CAS Key Laboratory of Solar Activity, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China
3
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
Received:
5
June
2019
Accepted:
18
June
2019
A solar filament is a dense cool condensation that is supported and thermally insulated by magnetic fields in the rarefied hot corona. Its evolution and stability, leading to either an eruption or disappearance, depend on its coupling with the surrounding hot corona through a thin transition region, where the temperature steeply rises. However, the heating and dynamics of this transition region remain elusive. We report extreme-ultraviolet observations of quiescent filaments from the Solar Dynamics Observatory that reveal prominence spicules propagating through the transition region of the filament-corona system. These thin needle-like jet features are generated and heated to at least 0.7 MK by turbulent motions of the material in the filament. We suggest that the prominence spicules continuously channel the heated mass into the corona and aid in the filament evaporation and decay. Our results shed light on the turbulence-driven heating in magnetized condensations that are commonly observed on the Sun and in the interstellar medium.
Key words: Sun: atmosphere / Sun: corona / Sun: filaments / prominences / Sun: magnetic fields / turbulence / waves
The movie associated to Fig. 1 is available at https://www.aanda.org.
© L. P. Chitta et al. 2019
Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Open Access funding provided by Max Planck Society.
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