# Future High-Resolution and High-Cadence Observations for Unraveling Small-Scale Explosive Solar Features

## TL;DR

This paper advocates for a high-resolution, high-cadence EUV solar imaging mission to study small-scale solar features like coronal jets, which can shed light on larger eruptions and solar wind phenomena.

## Contribution

It proposes a dedicated observational mission with unprecedented resolution and cadence to investigate the physics of small-scale solar explosive features.

## Key findings

- Enhanced understanding of coronal jet formation and triggering.
- Insights into the scaling of small-scale eruptions to larger solar phenomena.
- Potential advancements in solar wind and space weather prediction.

## Abstract

Solar coronal jets are frequently occurring collimated ejections of solar plasma, originating from magnetically mixed polarity locations on the Sun of size scale comparable to that of a supergranule. Many, if not most, coronal jets are produced by eruptions of small-scale filaments, or minifilaments, whose magnetic field reconnects both with itself and also with surrounding coronal field. There is evidence that minifilament eruptions are a scaled-down version of typical filament eruptions that produce solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Moreover, the magnetic processes building up to and triggering minifilament eruptions, which is often flux cancelation, might similarly build up and trigger the larger filaments to erupt. Thus, detailed study of coronal jets will inform us of the physics leading to, triggering, and driving the larger eruptions. Additionally, such studies potentially can inform us of smaller-scale coronal-jet-like features, such as jetlets and perhaps some spicules, that might work the same way as coronal jets. We propose a high-resolution (~0.1 pixels), high-cadence (~5 seconds) EUV-solar-imaging mission for the upcoming decades, that would be dedicated to observations of features of the coronal-jet size scale, and smaller-scale solar features produced by similar physics. Such a mission could provide invaluable insight into the operation of larger features such as CMEs that produce significant Space Weather disturbances, and also smaller-scale features that could be important for coronal heating, solar wind acceleration, and heliospheric features such as the magnetic switchbacks that are frequently observed in the solar wind.