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Although non-intuitive, an accelerated electron along a particular trajectory can be shown to emit classical electromagnetic radiation in the form of a Fermi-Dirac spectral distribution when observed in a particular angular regime. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Evgenii Ievlev , Michael R. R. Good

Electron acceleration to non-thermal energies is known to occur in low Mach number (M<5) shocks in galaxy clusters and solar flares, but the electron acceleration mechanism remains poorly understood. Using two-dimensional (2D)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-26 Xinyi Guo , Lorenzo Sironi , Ramesh Narayan

The high-frequency part of spectrum of electromagnetic waves propagating parallel to the external magnetic field is considered for the macroscopically motionless plasmas with the relativistic temperatures $T\sim m_{e}c^{2}$, where $m_{e}$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Pavel A. Andreev

Synchrotron circular polarization of a non-thermal power-law electron distribution in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been studied. However, some numerical simulations have shown that the resulting distribution of electrons is a combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Kangfa Cheng , Jirong Mao , Xiaohong Zhao , Hongbang Liu , Zhegeng Chen , Gaojin Yu , Zhifu Chen

We propose a kinetic model describing the formation of the strahl and halo electron populations in the solar wind. We demonstrate that the suprathermal electrons propagating from the sun along the Parker-spiral magnetic field lines are…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Konstantinos Horaites , Stanislav Boldyrev , Mikhail V. Medvedev

The {\gamma}-ray flares from the Crab nebula observed by AGILE and Fermi-LAT reaching GeV energies and lasting several days challenge the standard models for particle acceleration in pulsar wind nebulae, because the radiating electrons have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 John J Kroon , Peter A Becker , Justin Finke , Charles Dermer

We perform 2.5D hybrid simulations with massless fluid electrons and kinetic particle-in-cell ions to study the temporal evolution of ion temperatures, temperature anisotropies and velocity distribution functions in relation to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. G. Maneva , Adolfo F. Viñas , Pablo S. Moya , R. Wicks , S. Poedts

Microflares are energetically smaller versions of solar flares, demonstrating the same processes of plasma heating and particle acceleration. However, it remains unclear down to what energy scales this impulsive energy release continues,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Kristopher Cooper , Iain G. Hannah , Lindsay Glesener , Brian W. Grefenstette

In this paper we analyze soft and hard X-ray emission of the 2002 September 20 M1.8 GOES class solar flare observed by RHESSI and GOES satellites. In this flare event, soft X-ray emission precedes the onset of the main bulk hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Siarkowski , R. Falewicz , P. Rudawy

A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission mechanisms in the pulsar magnetospheres. We solve distribution of the accelerating electric field with the emission process and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , S. Shibata

Electrons accelerated by solar flares and observed as type III solar radio bursts are not only a crucial diagnostic tool for understanding electron transport in the inner heliosphere but also a possible early indication of potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Eduard P. Kontar , Francesco Azzollini , Olena Lyubchyk

Quantifying the energy content of accelerated electron beams during solar eruptive events is a key outstanding objective that must be constrained to refine particle acceleration models and understand the electron component of space weather.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Alexander W. James , Hamish A. S. Reid

Context: Stochastic acceleration is thought to be a key mechanism in the energization of solar flare electrons. Aims: We study whether stochastic acceleration can reproduce the observed soft-hard-soft evolution of the spectral features of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo C. Grigis , Arnold O. Benz

Motion of test particles in the gravitational field associated with an electromagnetic plane wave is investigated. The interaction with the radiation field is modeled by a force term {\it \`a la} Poynting-Robertson entering the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

In our recent paper (Solar Physics 261, 233) we investigated quasi-periodic oscillations of hard X-rays during impulsive phase of solar flares. We have come to conclusion that they are caused by magnetosonic oscillations of magnetic traps…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Jakimiec , M. Tomczak

When and where the magnetic field energy is released and converted in eruptive solar flares remains an outstanding topic in solar physics. To shed light on this question, here we report multi-wavelength observations of a C9.4-class eruptive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Yuqian Wei , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Haimin Wang , Yixian Zhang , Lindsay Glesener

The sunspot-associated sources at the frequency of 17 GHz give information on plasma parameters in the regions of magnetic field about B=2000 G at the level of the chromosphere-corona transition region. The observations of short period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Vladimir E. Abramov-Maximov , George B. Gelfreikh , Kiyoto Shibasaki

We investigate the acceleration of charged particles (both electrons and protons) at collisionless shocks predicted to exist in the vicinity of solar flares. The existence of standing termination shocks has been examined by flare models and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Fan Guo , Joe Giacalone

Radio observations of solar flares often reveal various periodic or quasi-periodic oscillations. Most likely, these oscillations are caused by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) oscillations of flaring loops which modulate the emission.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alexey Kuznetsov , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Veronika Reznikova

Relativistic thermal electrons moving in a large-scale magnetic field can produce synchrotron radiation. Linear synchrotron polarization can also be produced by the relativistic thermal electrons. In this paper, we utilize a hybrid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Jirong Mao , Stefano Covino , Jiancheng Wang