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Statistical Study of Network Jets Observed in the Solar Transition Region: a Comparison Between Coronal Holes and Quiet-Sun Regions

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Recent IRIS observations have revealed a prevalence of intermittent small-scale jets with apparent speeds of \(80\,\mbox{--}\,250~\mbox{km}\,\mbox{s}^{-1}\), emanating from small-scale bright regions inside network boundaries of coronal holes. We find that these network jets appear not only in coronal holes but also in quiet-sun regions. Using IRIS 1330 Å (C II) slit-jaw images, we extracted several parameters of these network jets, e.g. apparent speed, length, lifetime, and increase in foot-point brightness. Using several observations, we find that some properties of the jets are very similar, but others are obviously different between the quiet Sun and coronal holes. For example, our study shows that the coronal-hole jets appear to be faster and longer than those in the quiet Sun. This can be directly attributed to a difference in the magnetic configuration of the two regions, with open magnetic field lines rooted in coronal holes and magnetic loops often present in the quiet Sun. We also detected compact bright loops that are most likely transition region loops and are mostly located in quiet-Sun regions. These small loop-like regions are generally devoid of network jets. In spite of different magnetic structures in the coronal hole and quiet Sun in the transition region, there appears to be no substantial difference for the increase in footpoint brightness of the jets, which suggests that the generation mechanism of these network jets is very likely the same in both regions.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the anonymous referee for the constructive comments that have enabled us to improve the manuscript. The authors are grateful to the IRIS team for making the data publicly available. IRIS is a NASA Small Explorer mission developed and operated by the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), with mission operations executed at the NASA Ames Research Center and major contributions to downlink communications funded by the Norwegian Space Center (Norway) through a European Space Agency PRODEX contract. This work was supported by contract 8100002705 from LMSAL to SAO and the NSF REU solar physics program at SAO, grant number AGS-1263241. N.N. would like to thank the Human Resource Development Group (HRDG) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India for a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) award. H.T. is supported by the Recruitment Program of Global Experts of China and NSFC under grant 41574166. We would like to thank Haruhisa Iijima for valuable suggestions.

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  1. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala 2nd Block, Bangalore, 560034, India

    Nancy Narang & Dipankar Banerjee

  2. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Garden Street, Cambridge, UK

    Rebecca T. Arbacher, Ed E. DeLuca & Sean McKillop

  3. Department of Physics, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10027, USA

    Rebecca T. Arbacher

  4. School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Hui Tian

  5. Center of Excellence in Space Sciences, IISER, Kolkata, India

    Dipankar Banerjee

  6. Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

    Steven R. Cranmer

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Narang, N., Arbacher, R.T., Tian, H. et al. Statistical Study of Network Jets Observed in the Solar Transition Region: a Comparison Between Coronal Holes and Quiet-Sun Regions. Sol Phys 291, 1129–1142 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-016-0886-1

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