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Observations of Solar Jets and their Related Phenomena

Davina Innes (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

Abstract. Solar jets are fast-moving elongated ejections seen both in images and spectra on scales ranging from a fraction to several hundred megameters. They occur in and on the edge of unipolar regions such as quiet-Sun coronal holes, active-region plage and sunspots. Active region jets are the source of type III radio bursts, energetic electrons, and ions with greatly enhanced 3He and heavy element abundances. The frequent appearance and high velocities of jets in coronal holes has led to the speculation that they are the source of both the fast and the slow solar wind. In this review, I discuss the differences and similarities between jets at various scales from the different environments, focusing on their related interplanetary phenomena.

Invited Review