Magnetic reconnection in a compact magnetic dome: Chromospheric emissions and high-velocity plasma flows

We present observations of a brightening in an active region, captured in high-resolution data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope using the Visible Broadband Imager and the Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP). The event exhibits Ellerman bomb−like morphology in the H β filter, associated with flux cancellation between a small negative-polarity patch and an opposite polarity plage.

Additionally, it displays enhanced emissions in Ca ii K, hot elongated features containing Alfvénic plasma flows, and cooler blueshifted structures. We employ multiline, nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium inversions of the spectropolarimetric data to infer the stratification of the physical parameters of the atmosphere. Furthermore, we use the photospheric vector magnetogram inferred from the ViSP spectra as a boundary condition for nonlinear force-free field extrapolations, revealing the three-dimensional distribution of squashing factors.