Dynamic Fibrils are driven by Magnetoacoustic Shocks.pdfVIP

ApJ Letters in press A Preprint typeset using LT X style emulateapj v. 6/22/04 E DYNAMIC FIBRILS ARE DRIVEN BY MAGNETOACOUSTIC SHOCKS V. H. Hansteen1 Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, PO Box 1029 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway B. De Pontieu Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab, 3251 Hanover St., Org. ADBS, Bldg. 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA 6 0 L. Rouppe van der Voort1 0 Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, PO Box 1029 Blindern , 0315 Oslo, Norway 2 l M. van Noort u J Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, AlbaNova University Center, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 4 1 M. Carlsson1 Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo , PO Box 1029 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway 1 ApJ Letters in press v 2 ABSTRACT 3 The formation of jets such as dynamic fibrils, mottles, and spicules in the solar chromosphere is one 3 of the most important, but also most poorly understood, phenomena of the Sun’s magnetized outer 7 0 atmosphere. We use extremely high-resolution observations from the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope 6 combined with advanced numerical modeling to show that in active regions these jets are