Quasi-periodic microjets driven by granular advection as observed with high-resolution imaging at He I 10830 \r{A}

TL;DR

This study analyzes granular-sized microjets observed in He I 10830 Å, revealing their quasi-periodic nature, magnetic reconnection origins, and modulation by p-mode oscillations, supported by high-resolution imaging and multi-wavelength data.

Contribution

It provides detailed observational evidence linking microjets to magnetic reconnection modulated by p-mode oscillations, highlighting the role of granular magnetic flux transport.

Findings

Microjets are situated on magnetic polarity inversion lines.

Recurrent microjets have a quasi-periodic recurrence of ~5 minutes.

Magnetic reconnection drives the microjets, with ongoing reconnection modulated by p-mode oscillations.

Abstract

With high-resolution narrowband He I 10830 \r{A} filtergrams from GST, we give an extensive analysis for 4 granular sized microeruptions which appear as the gentle ejection of material in He I 10830 \r{A} band. The analysis was aided with the EUV data from AIA and line-of-sight magnetograms from HMI on board SDO. The microeruptions are situated on magnetic polarity inversion lines (PILs), and their roots are accurately traced down to intergranular lanes. Their durations are different, two microeruptions are repetitive microjets, lasting ~ 50 and 27 minutes respectively, while the other two events are singular, lasting ~ 5 minutes. For the two microjets, they are continuous and recurrent in He I 10830 \r{A} band, and the recurrence is quasi-periodic with the period of ~ 5 minutes. We found that only transient co-spatial EUV brightenings are observed for the longer duration microjets and EUV brightenings are absent for the two singular microeruptions. What is essential to the longer duration microjets is that granules with the concentration of positive magnetic field persistently transport the magnetic field to the PILs, canceling the opposite magnetic flux and making the base of the two microjets and the underlying granules migrate with the speed of ~ 0.25 and 1.0 km/s. The observations support the scenario of magnetic reconnection for the quasi-periodic microjets and further show that the reconnection continuously generates multi-temperature components, especially the cool component with chromospheric temperature. In addition, the ongoing reconnection is modulated by p-mode oscillations inside the Sun.