Physical Characteristics of Two Types of EUV Coronal Jets Observed by SDO/AIA

  • Kim, Il-Hoon (Department of Astronomy & Space Science, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Moon, Yong-Jae (Department of Astronomy & Space Science, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Lee, Jin-Yi (Department of Astronomy & Space Science, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Lee, Kyoung-Sun (Astromy Program Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Sung, Suk-Kyung (School of Space Research, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Kim, Kap-Sung (Department of Astronomy & Space Science, Kyunghee University)
  • Published : 2013.04.11

Abstract

We have investigated the EUV coronal jets observed by Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) / Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). From the Heliophysics Events Knowledgebase (HEK), we consider all recorded 40 EUV jets in $171{\AA}$ from May 2010 to July 2011 and use 19 jets whose location can be clearly identified, excluding limb events because of the ambiguity of their positions. According to the positions of their roots, these coronal jets are classified into two types: bright point jet (BPJ, 9 jets) and active region boundary jet (ABJ, 10 jets). BPJs are located at the top of bright points and ABJs at the boundaries of active regions. There are significant differences in speed and size between two types. Here the speed and size of a jet are assumed to be its maximum values in the case that the jet has several ejections. The average speed and size of 9 BPJs are about 110 km/s and 69,000km, respectively. The average speed and size of 10 ABJs are about 660 km/s and 194,000 km, respectively. The speed distribution of ABJs has two peaks at about 270 km/s and 1700 km/s. It is very interesting to note that three ABJs have very high speeds larger than 1600 km/s and they are all composed of a group of recurrent jets with low and high speed at the same location. In addition, we are investigating these events in other wavelengths and compare their characteristics.

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