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Binary systems composed of a recycled millisecond pulsar and a stellar companion in close orbit could be excellent sites to diagnose pulsar winds. In such systems, the pulsar outflow irradiates and heats up the companion atmosphere, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Anne Zilles , Kumiko Kotera , Rene Rohrmann , Leandro Althaus

High-precision pulsar timing relies on a solar-system ephemeris in order to convert times of arrival (TOAs) of pulses measured at an observatory to the solar system barycenter. Any error in the conversion to the barycentric TOAs leads to a…

We update the SOHO/SWAN H Lyman-alpha brightness analysis to cover the 1996-2008 time interval. A forward model applied to the intensity maps provides the latitude and time dependence of the interstellar Hydrogen ionisation rate over more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 Rosine Lallement , Eric Quemerais , Philippe Lamy , Jean-Loup Bertaux , Stephane Ferron , Walter Schmidt

The solar wind provides a natural laboratory for observations of MHD turbulence over extended temporal scales. Here, we apply a model independent method of differencing and rescaling to identify self-similarity in the Probability Density…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bogdan Hnat , Sandra C. Chapman , George Rowlands

We compare the hot star wind models calculated assuming older solar abundance determination with models calculated using the recently published values derived from 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres. We show that the use of new abundances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiri Krticka , Jiri Kubat

We present a unified method to derive both solar wind velocities and coronal electron densities in the near-Sun corona using Doppler spectral broadening of spacecraft radio signals. The method is generalized to be frequency independent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Takeshi Imamura , Hiroki Ando

The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has observed dozens of millisecond pulsars for over a decade. We have accrued a large collection of dispersion measure (DM) measurements sensitive to the total…

The high-speed solar wind is typically the simplest and least stochastic type of large-scale plasma flow in the heliosphere. For much of the solar cycle, it is connected magnetically to large polar coronal holes on the Sun's surface.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 Steven R. Cranmer

In the last decade ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have discovered roughly 30 pulsar wind nebulae at energies above 100 GeV. We present first results from a leptonic emission code that models the spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-21 C. van Rensburg , P. P. Kruger , C. Venter

An empirical model for forecasting solar wind speed related geomagnetic events is presented here. The model is based on the estimated location and size of solar coronal holes. This method differs from models that are based on photospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Robbins , C. J. Henney , J. W. Harvey

The modeling of the heliosphere requires continuous three-dimensional solar wind data. The in-situ out-of-ecliptic measurements are very rare, so that other methods of solar wind detection are needed. We use the remote-sensing data of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-27 Justyna M. Sokół , Paweł Swaczyna , Maciej Bzowski , Munetoshi Tokumaru

Space weather predictions of the solar wind impacting Earth are usually first based on remote-sensing observations of the solar disc and corona, and eventually validated and/or refined with in-situ measurements taken at the Sun$-$Earth…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Erika Palmerio

We present simulations of scattering phenomena which are important in pulsar observations, but which are analytically intractable. The simulation code, which has also been used for solar wind and atmospheric scattering problems, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 W. A. Coles , B. J. Rickett , J. J. Gao , G. Hobbs , J. P. W. Verbiest

In the present paper, we model the wind of solar analogues at different ages to investigate the evolution of the solar wind. Recently, it has been suggested that winds of solar type stars might undergo a change in properties at old ages,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 D. Ó Fionnagáin , A. A. Vidotto

During the last decades, international attempts have been made to develop realistic space weather prediction tools aiming to forecast the conditions on the Sun and in the interplanetary environment. These efforts have led to the development…

We investigate Venus Express (VEX) observations of magnetic field fluctuations performed systematically in the solar wind at 0.72 Astronomical Units (AU), between 2007 and 2009, during the deep minimum of the solar cycle 24. The Power…

This work presents a new theoretical and numerical model describing all possible linear interactions between upper-hybrid wave turbulence and random density fluctuations in a solar wind plasma; not only linear processes as wave reflection,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Catherine Krafft , Alexandr Volokitin

Solar wind turbulence is often perceived as weakly compressible and the density fluctuations remain poorly understood both theoretically and observationally. Compressible magnetohydrodynamic simulations provide useful insights into the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Senbei Du , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Xiangrong Fu

Properties of the solar wind are discussed and applied to the effect of the wind on motion of bodies in the Solar System. The velocity density function for the solar wind constituents is given by the $\kappa-$distribution. The relevant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jozef Klačka

This article presents a Python model and library that can be used for student investigation of the application of fundamental physics on a specific problem: the role of magnetic field in solar wind acceleration. The paper begins with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Lauren N. Woolsey