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Impulsive solar energetic electrons are often observed in the interplanetary space near the Earth and have an attractive diagnostic potential for poorly understood solar flare acceleration processes. We investigate the transport of solar…

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Earth's magnetotail, and the plasma sheet embedded in it, is a highly dynamic region that is coupled to both the solar wind and to the inner magnetosphere. As a consequence of this coupling, the plasma sheet undergoes explosive energy…

Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies in solar and space plasma environments. While energy spectra of accelerated electrons often exhibit a power law, it remains unclear how electrons are accelerated to high energies…

By means of three dimensional high-resolution hybrid simulations we study the properties of the magnetic field spectral anisotropies near and beyond ion kinetic scales. By using both a Fourier analysis and a local analysis based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-18 Simone Landi , Luca Franci , Emanuele Papini , Andrea Verdini , Lorenzo Matteini , Petr Hellinger

The time-domain response of highly conducting targets following a rapidly terminated electromagnetic pulse displays three distinct regimes: early, intermediate and late time. The intermediate and late times are characterized by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Peter B. Weichman

The dissipation of turbulent magnetic fields is an appealing scenario to explain the origin of non-thermal particles in high-energy astrophysical sources. However, it has been suggested that the particle distribution may effectively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-09 Emanuele Sobacchi , Yuri E. Lyubarsky

Due to its ubiquitous presence, turbulence is often invoked to explain the origin of nonthermal particles in astrophysical sources of high-energy emission. With particle-in-cell simulations, we study decaying turbulence in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-21 Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi

Two extreme events in the universe, fast radio bursts (FRBs) and cosmic rays (CRs), could be correlated, where FRBs with extreme field strength near their sources may contribute to CRs. This study investigates localized particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Lin Yu , Tianxing Hu , Zhiyu Lei , Xiangyan An , Dong Wu , Suming Weng , Min Chen , Jie Zhang , Zhengming Sheng

Astrophysical plasmas are typically magnetized, with the Larmor radii of the charged particles many orders of magnitude smaller than their collisional mean free paths. The fundamental properties of such plasmas, e.g., conduction and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 S. Komarov , I. Khabibullin , E. Churazov , A. Schekochihin

In collision-poor plasmas from space, three distinct ion-ion instabilities can be driven by the proton beams streaming along the background magnetic field: left-hand resonant, non-resonant, and right-hand resonant instabilities. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 S. M. Shaaban , M. Lazar , R. A. López , S. Poedts

Particles produced in heavy ion collisions carry information about anisotropies present already in the early state of the system and play a crucial role in understanding the Quark Gluon Plasma and its evolution. We explore the angular power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Meera Machado , Poul Henrik Damgaard , Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje , Christian Bourjau

Impulsive geomagnetic variations, latitudinally localized to the auroral zone, have been observed over the period from 2015-2020. These impulsive events have been observed mostly in the pre-midnight sector as upward vertical perturbations.…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Kyle Reiter , Sébastien Guillon , Martin Connors , Brian Jackel

The differential heating of electrons and ions by turbulence in weakly collisional magnetized plasmas and the scales at which such energy dissipation is most effective are still debated. Using a large data sample measured in the Earth's…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Davide Manzini , Fouad Sahraoui , Francesco Califano

Active region 11029 was a small, highly flare-productive solar active region observed at a time of extremely low solar activity. The region produced only small flares: the largest of the $>70$ Geostationary Observational Environmental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. S. Wheatland

In continuation of previous work, numerical results are presented, concerning relativistically counter-streaming plasmas. Here, the relativistic mixed mode instability evolves through, and beyond, the linear saturation -- well into the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacob Trier Frederiksen , Mark Eric Dieckmann

We present test-particle simulations of electrons during a nonlinear MHD simulation of a type-I edge localized mode (ELM) to explore the effect of an eruptive plasma filament on the kinetic level. The electrons are moderately heated and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Heinz Isliker , Andres Cathey , Matthias Hoelzl , Stanislas Pamela , Loukas Vlahos

Langmuir waves (LWs), which are believed to play a crucial role in the plasma emission of solar radio bursts, can be excited by streaming instability of energetic electron beams. However, solar hard X-ray observations imply that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jianfei Tang , Dejin Wu , Guoqing Zhao , Ling Chen , Chengming Tan

Building on recent progress in the understanding of particle transport in magnetized plasmas, we derive a scaling law for the formation of nonthermal spectral tails in mildly and strongly magnetized turbulent environments. We validate this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Rostom Mbarek , Daniel Grošelj , Alexander Philippov

The electron-cyclotron maser instability (ECMI) is responsible for generation of the planetary auroral radio emissions. Most likely, the same mechanism produces radio bursts from ultracool dwarfs. We investigate amplification of plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Alexey A. Kuznetsov

We present a new analysis of the anisotropic spectral energy distribution in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence permeated by a strong mean magnetic field. The turbulent flow is generated by high-resolution pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Grappin , Wolf-Christian Müller