On a Coronal Blowout Jet: The First Observation of a Simultaneously Produced Bubble-like CME and a Jet-like CME in a Solar Event

TL;DR

This study reports the first simultaneous observation of bubble-like and jet-like CMEs associated with a coronal blowout jet, revealing their origins from filament eruption and magnetic reconnection processes.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed observational evidence linking simultaneous bubble-like and jet-like CMEs to a coronal blowout jet, supported by multi-wavelength and multi-angle data.

Findings

Cool component from filament eruption caused bubble-like CME.

Hot component from magnetic reconnection caused jet-like CME.

Bifurcation resulted from uncoupling of twisted filament legs.

Abstract

The coronal blowout jet is a peculiar category among various jet phenomena, of which the sheared base arch, often carrying a small filament, experiences a miniature version of blowout eruption that produces large-scale coronal mass ejection (CME). In this paper, we report such a coronal blowout jet with high-resolution multi-wavelength and multi-angle observations taken from Solar Dynamics Observatory, Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, and Big Bear Solar Observatory. For the first time, we find that a simultaneous bubble-like and a jet-like CMEs were dynamically related to the blowout jet that showed cool and hot components next to each other. Our observational results indicate that: (1) the cool component was resulted from the eruption of the filament contained within the jet's base arch, and it further caused the bubble-like CME; (2) the jet-like CME was associated with the hot component, which was the outward moving heated plasmas generated by the reconnection of the base arch and its ambient open field lines. On the other hand, bifurcation of the jet's cool component was also observed, which was resulted from the uncoupling of the erupting filament's two legs that were highly twisted at the very beginning. Based on these results, we propose a model to interpret the coronal blowout jet, of which the external reconnection not only produces the jet-like CME but also leads to the rising of the filament. Subsequently, internal reconnection starts underneath the rising filament and thereby causes the bubble-like CME.