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Small-scale filament eruptions as the driver of X-ray jets in solar coronal holes

Moore, Ronald L.; Sterling, Alphonse C.; Falconer, David A. +1 more

Solar X-ray jets are thought to be made by a burst of reconnection of closed magnetic field at the base of a jet with ambient open field. In the accepted version of the `emerging-flux' model, such a reconnection occurs at a plasma current sheet between the open field and the emerging closed field, and also forms a localized X-ray brightening that …