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Magnetic reconnection and turbulence in magnetically-dominated environments have been proposed as important nonthermal particle acceleration mechanisms that generate high energy particles and associated emissions. While the acceleration to…

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We investigate the role of non-thermal electrons in the formation regions of Halpha, Hbeta, and Hgamma lines in order to unfold their influence on the formation of these lines. We concentrate on pulse-beam heating varying on a subsecond…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Kasparova , M. Varady , P. Heinzel , M. Karlicky , Z. Moravec

Recent observations with ALMA have revealed evidence for non-thermal synchrotron emission from the core regions of two nearby Seyfert galaxies. This suggests that the coronae of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Dmitry Khangulyan , Susumu Inoue , Akihiro Doi

We have shown that there exists low-frequency growing modes driven by a global temperature gradient in electron and ion plasmas, by linear perturbation analysis within the frame work of plasma Kinetic theory. The driving force of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Hattori , Keiichi Umetsu

Galaxy clusters are the most massive constituents of the large-scale structure of the Universe. While the hot thermal gas that pervades galaxy clusters is relatively well understood through observations with X-ray satellites, our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-19 F. de Gasperin , H. T. Intema , T. W. Shimwell , G. Brunetti , M. Bruggen , T. A. Ensslin , R. J. van Weeren , A. Bonafede , H. J. A. Rottgering

We use 2.5-D electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulation code to investigate the acceleration of electrons in solar coronal holes through the interaction of Alfv\'en waves with an interplume region. The interplume is modeled by a cavity…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Khalil Daiffallah , Fabrice Mottez

During solar flares fast electron beams generated in the solar corona are non-thermal radio sources in terms of type III bursts. Sometimes they can enter into the interplanetary space, where they can be observed by in-situ measurements as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-23 H. Önel , G. Mann , E. Sedlmayr

The aim of this paper is to try to explain the physical origin of the non-thermal electron distribution that is able to form the enhanced intensities of satellite lines in the X-ray line spectra observed during the impulsive phases of some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Elena Dzifcakova , Marek Vandas , Marian Karlicky

Particle acceleration in the magnetic reconnection of electron-positron plasmas is studied by using a particle-in-cell simulation. It is found that a significantly large number of nonthermal particles are generated by the inductive electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-03 S. Zenitani , M. Hoshino

Incoherent bremsstrahlung by high-energy particles in crystal is due to the thermal spread of atoms in relation to their equilibrium positions in the lattice. The simulation procedure developed earlier for the incoherent radiation is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 N. F. Shul'ga , V. V. Syshchenko , A. I. Tarnovsky

In evolved supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds, such as IC 443, W44, and 3C391, a highly inhomogeneous structure consisting of a forward shock of moderate Mach number, a cooling layer, a dense radiative shell and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Bykov , R. A. Chevalier , D. C. Ellison , Yu. A. Uvarov

1) Background: the budget of non-thermal energy in galaxy clusters is not well constrained, owing to the observational and theoretical difficulties in studying these diluted plasmas on large scales. 2) Method: we use recent cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-04 Franco Vazza , Denis Wittor , Marcus Brüggen , Claudio Gheller

The mechanism of heating for hot, dilute, and turbulent plasmas represents a long-standing problem in space physics, whose implications concern both near-Earth environments and astrophysical systems. In order to explore the possible role of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 O. Pezzi , D. Perrone , S. Servidio , F. Valentini , L. Sorriso-Valvo , P. Veltri

We undertake an investigation of particle acceleration in the context of non-linear electrodynamics. We deduce the maximum energy that an electron can gain in a non-linear density wave in a magnetised plasma, and we show that an electron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 David A. Burton , Stephen P. Flood , Haibao Wen

The evolution of a solar flare accelerated non-thermal electron population and associated plasma emission is considered in collisional inhomogeneous plasma. Non-thermal electrons collisionally evolve to become unstable and generate Langmuir…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-10 Heather Ratcliffe , Eduard. P. Kontar

The interaction of magnetic turbulence and relativistic particles is a important process for understanding particles propagation and acceleration in many astrophysical environments. Large-scale turbulence can be generated in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 Gianfranco Brunetti

The bremsstrahlung x-ray emission induced by the impact of plasma electrons de-confined on the chamber wall of the ASTERICS electron cyclotron resonance ion source is investigated through a suite of two simulation codes. The electron high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Thomas Thuillier , Andrea Cernuschi , Benjamin Cheymol

I investigate the shape of the electron cosmic ray spectrum in the range up to ~1000 keV, assuming that the acceleration process at the shock results in a power law in momentum, and that downstream of the shock the spectrum is affected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-30 Jacco Vink

Particle acceleration is one of the most significant features that are ubiquitous among space and cosmic plasmas. It is most prominent during flares in the case of the Sun, with which huge amount of electromagnetic radiation and high-energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Masumi Shimojo , Taro Sakao

The nonlinear absorption of laser radiation of relativistic intensities in the underdense plasma by a mechanism of stimulated bremsstrahlung of electrons on the ions/nuclei is investigated in the low frequency approximation. Coefficient of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 H. K. Avetissian , A. G. Ghazaryan , G. F. Mkrtchian