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The hard X-ray flux ratio R of the footpoint sources to the loop-top source has been used to investigate non-thermal electron trapping and precipitation in solar flares. Considering the mission-long Yohkoh Hard X-ray Telescope database,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Tomczak , T. Ciborski

Recent imaging observations of EUV line emissions have shown evidence for frequent flare-like events in a majority of the pixels in quiet regions of the solar corona. The changes in coronal emission measure indicate impulsive heating of new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arnold O. Benz , Sam Krucker

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

The article discusses the correctness of the assumption about the similarity of molecular continuum electron functions with wave functions in electron-atom scattering. The elastic scattering of slow particles by pair of non-overlapping…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

In observations of flare-heated electrons in the solar corona, a longstanding problem is the unexplained prolonged lifetime of the electrons compared to their transit time across the source. This suggests confinement. Recent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 T. C. Li , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak

We study a model of particle acceleration coupled with an MHD model of magnetic reconnection in unstable twisted coronal loops. The kink instability leads to the formation of helical currents with strong parallel electric fields resulting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , E. P. Kontar , N. H. Bian

We analyzed the energy and momentum distributions of laser-induced high-energy photoelectrons of alkali and rare gas atoms. For the plateau electrons with energies above $4U_p$, ($U_p$ is the ponderomotive energy), in the tunneling…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Zhangjin Chen , Anh-Thu Le , Toru Morishita , C. D. Lin

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. P. Kontar , H. A. S. Reid

We consider electron-atom scattering in a circularly polarized laser field at sufficiently high electron energies, permitting to describe the scattering process by the first order Born approximation. Assuming the radiation field has…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Aurelia Cionga , Fritz Ehlotzky , Gabriela Zloh

How and where are coronal loops rooted in the solar lower atmosphere? The details of the magnetic environment and its evolution at the footpoints of coronal loops are crucial to understanding the processes of mass and energy supply to the…

Efficient radiation at second and/or higher harmonics of Wce has been suggested to circumvent the escaping difficulty of the electron cyclotron maser emission mechanism when it is applied to solar radio bursts, such as spikes. In our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-15 Mehdi Yousefzadeh , Yao Chen , Hao Ning , Mahboub Hosseinpour

Although both electron-ion and electron-electron bremsstrahlung contribute to the hard X-ray emission from solar flares, the latter is normally ignored. Such an omission is not justified at electron (and photon) energies above $\sim 300$…

The distribution function of electrons and phonons interacting with electrons in semiconductors and semimetals in high electric and quantizing magnetic fields as a result of the solution of the coupled system of equations for the density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. M. Gassym

Based upon the rate equations for the photon distribution function obtained in the previous paper, we study the inverse Compton scattering process for high-energy nonthermal electrons. Assuming the power-law electron distribution, we find a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Satoshi Nozawa , Yasuharu Kohyama , Naoki Itoh

Based on the quantum electrodynamics, we present a generic formalism of the polarization for beamed monochromatic photons scattered by electrons in any spectral distribution. The formulae reduce to the components of the Fano matrix when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

We consider the Compton scattering in the optically thick uniform spherical corona around a neutron star in an X-ray binary. In the scattering, the low energy seed photons (0.1 - 2.5 keV) are scattered in low energy electrons (2.5 - 10 keV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-22 ChangSheng Shi

In the light of recent measurements of the C 1s core level dispersion in graphene [Nat. Phys. 6, 345 (2010)], we explore the interplay between the elastic scattering of photoelectrons and the surface core level shifts with regard to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 E. F. Schwier , C. Monney , N. Mariotti , Z. Vydrovà , M. García-Fernández , C. Didiot , M. G. Garnier , P. Aebi

To understand the mechanism of coronal heating, it is crucial to derive the contribution of small-scale flares, the so-called nanoflares, to the heating up of the solar corona. To date, several studies have tried to derive the occurrence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Toshiki Kawai , Shinsuke Imada

The quadratic low-temperature dependence of resistance in ordinary metals is determined by the momentum relaxation due to electron-electron scattering in the presence Umklapp processes and scattering on impurities. In metals without…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 V. P. Mineev

One of the key problems in solar flare physics is the determination of the low-energy cut-off; the value that determines the energy of nonthermal electrons and hence flare energetics. We discuss different approaches to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus Aschwanden , Eduard P. Kontar , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey