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Reconnection nanojets in the solar corona

Antolin, Patrick; Pagano, Paolo; Testa, Paola +2 more

The solar corona is shaped and mysteriously heated to millions of degrees by the Sun's magnetic field. It has long been hypothesized that the heating results from a myriad of tiny magnetic energy outbursts called nanoflares, driven by the fundamental process of magnetic reconnection. Misaligned magnetic field lines can break and reconnect, produci…