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A method is presented to derive electron temperatures and densities of planetary nebulae (PNe) simultaneously, using the observed hydrogen recombination spectrum, which includes continuum and line emission. By matching theoretical spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Zhang , X. -W. Liu , R. Wesson , P. J. Storey , Y. Liu , I. J. Danziger

Coronal waves, significant solar phenomena, act as diagnostic tools for scientists studying solar atmosphere properties. Here, we present a novel observation detailing how a coronal wave event, associated with an X5.0 class flare,…

The launch of the Infrared Space Observatory and new atomic data have opened a window to the study of high ionization gas in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present the results of a large number of photoionization simulations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jason W. Ferguson , Kirk T. Korista , Gary J. Ferland

It has been theoretically shown that in large-density semiconductor plasma there exist an energy level of a bound electron-hole pair (a composite boson) at the band gap. Filling this level up occurs through the condensation of electron-hole…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter P. Vasil'ev , Igor V. Smetenin

This paper proposes that the ion temperature is several times the local electron temperature in the hot onset phase and at the above-the-loop region of solar flares. The paper considers: the evidence of spectral line Doppler widths…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Alexander J. B. Russell , Vanessa Polito , Paola Testa , Bart De Pontieu , Sergey A. Belov

Heavy ions are markers of the physical processes responsible for the density and temperature distribution throughout the fine scale magnetic structures that define the shape of the solar corona. One of their properties, whose empirical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Benjamin Boe , Shadia Habbal , Miloslav Druckmuller , Enrico Landi , Ehsan Kourkchi , Adalbert Ding , Pavel Starha , Joseph Hutton

Seventy measurements of electron heating at the Earth's quasi-perpendicular bow shock are analyzed in terms of Maxwellian-temperatures obtained from fits to the core electrons that separate thermal heating from supra-thermal acceleration.…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-01-25 David Sundkvist , Forrest Mozer

A differential emission measure (DEM) method is used to evaluate the relationship of the electron density and temperature before and after a coronal rain event during an active sun over the period from 20:10 UT on October 6 to 02:10 on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Z. M. Vashalomidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. D. Kukhianidze

The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

In this work is examined a new modeling way of describing the continuous absorption of electromagnetic (EM) radiation in a dense partially ionized hydrogen plasmas with electron densities about $5\cdot10^{18}$ cm$^{-3}$ -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. A. Mihajlov , N. M. Sakan , V. A. Sreckovic , Y. Vitel

Extracting the temperature of coronal loops is effective in the analysis of solar active region's loops and helps in better understanding of coronal events. To this end, various methods have already been developed like the method developed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-30 Narges Fathalian

A new modeling way of describing the continuous absorption of electromagnetic (EM) radiation in dense partially ionized hydrogen plasma is tested in this work. It is shown that the obtained results give a possibility of calculating spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 A. A. Mihajlov , N M Sakan , V. A. Sreckovic , Y. Vitel

A new method for measuring the electron temperature of the plasma in GOL-NB facility is proposed. The proposed method is based on measuring the ratio of intensities of spectral lines emitted by fast atoms injected into the plasma. The beams…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 S. Polosatkin

We have introduced a new method of estimating the electron temperature and density of H II regions by using single dish observations. In this method, multiple hydrogen radio recombination lines of different bands are computed under the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-14 F. -Y. Zhu , Q. -F. Zhu , J. -Z. Wang , J. -S Zhang

Coronal density, temperature and heat flux distributions for the equatorial and polar corona have been deduced by Lemaire [2012] from Saito's model of averaged coronal white light (WL) brightness and polarization observations. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Pierrard , K. Borremans , J. F. Lemaire

In this paper, we study the temperature and density properties of multiple structural components of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using differential emission measure (DEM) analysis. The DEM analysis is based on the six-passband EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , S. H. Saar , M. D. Ding

We perform two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection in electron-ion plasmas subject to strong Compton cooling and calculate the X-ray spectra produced by this process. The simulations are performed for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Navin Sridhar , Lorenzo Sironi , Andrei M. Beloborodov

We present coordinated coronal observations of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse with the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) and the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS). These instruments provide an unprecedented…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Chad A. Madsen , Jenna E. Samra , Giulio Del Zanna , Edward E. DeLuca

The plasma in low-luminosity accretion flows, such as the one around the black hole at the center of M87 or Sgr A* at our Galactic Center, is expected to be collisioness and two-temperature, with protons hotter than electrons. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 Michael E. Rowan , Lorenzo Sironi , Ramesh Narayan

Radiative cooling is an important ingredient in hydrodynamical models involving evolution of high temperature plasmas. Unfortunately, calculating an accurate cooling coefficient generally requires the solution of over a hundred differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Robert A. Benjamin , Bradford A. Benson , Donald P. Cox