Spectroscopic and Stereoscopic Observations of the Solar Jets

TL;DR

This study provides detailed spectroscopic and stereoscopic observations of recurrent solar jets, revealing their plasma composition, rotational motions, and association with magnetic reconnection, flares, and CMEs.

Contribution

It offers the first combined spectroscopic, stereoscopic, and multi-wavelength analysis of solar jets, elucidating their 3D velocities, plasma characteristics, and triggering mechanisms.

Findings

Jets exhibit both cool and hot plasma components.

Jets show rotational motions with opposite Doppler shifts on sides.

The largest jet was associated with a C1.6 flare and a weak CME.

Abstract

We present a comprehensive study of a series of recurrent jets that occurred at the periphery of the NOAA active region 12114 on 2014 July 7. These jets were found to share the same source region and exhibited rotational motions as they propagated outward. The multi-wavelength imaging observations made by the AIA and {\it IRIS} telescopes reveal that some of the jets contain cool plasma only, while some others contain not only cool but also hot plasma. The Doppler velocities calculated from the {\it IRIS} spectra show a continuous evolution from blue to red shifts as the jet motions change from upward to downward. Additionally, some jets exhibit opposite Doppler shifts on their both sides, indicative of rotating motions along their axes. The inclination angle and three-dimensional velocity of the largest jet were inferred from the imaging and spectroscopic observations, which show a high consistence with those derived from the stereoscopic analysis using dual-perspective observations by {\it SDO}/AIA and {\it STEREO}-B/EUVI. By relating the jets to the local UV/EUV and full-disk {\it GOES} X-ray emission enhancements, we found that the previous five small-scale jets were triggered by five bright points while the last/largest one was triggered by a C1.6 solar flare. Together with a number of type III radio bursts generated during the jet eruptions as well as a weak CME that was observed in association with the last jet, our observations provide evidences in support of multi-scale magnetic reconnection processes being responsible for the production of jet events.