Solar H-alpha features with hot onsets. IV. Network fibrils

Abstract

Even in quiet areas underneath coronal holes the solar chromosphere contains ubiquitous heating events. They tend to be small scale and short lived, hence difficult to identify. Here we do not address their much-debated contribution to outer-atmosphere heating, but their aftermaths. We performed a statistical analysis of high-resolution observations in the Balmer H-alpha line to suggest that many slender dark H-alpha fibrils spreading out from network represent cooling gas that outlines tracks of preceding rapid type II spicule events or smaller similar but as yet unresolved heating agents in which the main gas constituent, hydrogen, ionizes at least partially. Subsequent recombination then causes dark H-alpha fibrils enhanced by nonequilibrium overopacity. We suggest that the extraordinary fibrilar appearance of the H-alpha chromosphere around network results from intermittent, frequent small-scale prior heating.

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