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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

Based on detailed analysis of radio and X-ray observations of a flare on 2002 April 11 augmented by realistic 3D modeling, we have identified a radio emission component produced directly at the flare acceleration region. This acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gregory D. Fleishman , Eduard P. Kontar , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

Ambient plasma electrons undergo strong heating in regions associated with compressive traveling interplanetary solar-wind bulk-velocity jumps due to their specific interactions with the jump-inherent electric fields. After thermalization…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Hans J. Fahr , Igor V. Chashei , Daniel Verscharen

The self-consistent description of Langmuir wave and ion-sound wave turbulence in the presence of an electron beam is presented for inhomogeneous non-isothermal plasmas. Full numerical solutions of the complete set of kinetic equations for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 E. P. Kontar , H. L. Pecseli

Solar flares release magnetic energy through reconnection, accelerating electrons into nonthermal velocity distributions, including crescent-shaped electron populations. These energetic electron distributions are crucial in driving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Mehdi Yousefzadeh

Spacecraft observations of high-energy electron flux enhancement up to 125 keV at Earth's magnetopause are typically linked to the magnetic reconnection. Here, we report the first ever observation of prolonged electron flux enhancement…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Shubhangi Lagad , Amar Kakad , Bharati Kakad

Solar energetic particles such as electrons can be accelerated to mildly-relativistic velocities in the solar corona. These electrons travel through the turbulent corona generating radio waves, which are then severely affected by…

Most theoretical investigations of particle acceleration during solar flares cannot be applied to observations for detailed study of the time evolution. We propose a phenomenological model for turbulence evolution and stochastic particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-10 Siming Liu , Lyndsay Fletcher

Driven by recent RHESSI observations of confined loop-top hard X-ray sources in solar flares, we consider stochastic acceleration of electrons in the presence of Coulomb collisions. If electron escape from the acceleration region can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nicolas H. Bian , A. Gordon Emslie , Duncan J. Stackhouse , Eduard P. Kontar

The imaging spectroscopy capabilities of the Reuven Ramaty high energy solar spectroscopic imager (RHESSI) enable the examination of the accelerated electron distribution throughout a solar flare region. In particular, it has been revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Duncan J. Stackhouse , Eduard P. Kontar

The electron spectrum exhibits a complex structure and has controversially proposed origins. This work reproduce the evolution of the electron spectrum based on a spatially dependent propagation (SDP) model. The key point is that our SPD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Xu-Lin Dong , Shu-Wei Ma , Yi-Qing Guo , Shu-Wang Cui

Understanding nonthermal particle generation, transport, and escape in solar flares requires detailed quantification of the particle evolution in the realistic 3D domain where the flare takes place. Rather surprisingly, apart of standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Natsuha Kuroda , Sabina Jia , Kevin Tong , Richard R. Wen , Zhou Zhizhuo

The acceleration and transport of energetic electrons during solar flares is one of the outstanding topics in solar physics. Recent X-ray and radio imaging and spectroscopy observations have provided diagnostics of the distribution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xiangliang Kong , Bin Chen , Fan Guo , Chengcai Shen , Xiaocan Li , Jing Ye , Lulu Zhao , Zelong Jiang , Sijie Yu , Yao Chen , Joe Giacalone

Three-wave interactions between Langmuir and electromagnetic waves in plasma with unstable electron flows are believed to be the main cause for type II and III solar radio emissions. The narrow band of type II bursts requires to assume that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 V. V. Annenkov , E. P. Volchok , I. V. Timofeev

The angular distribution of electrons accelerated in solar flares is a key parameter in the understanding of the acceleration and propagation mechanisms that occur there. However, the anisotropy of energetic electrons is still a poorly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-24 Ewan Cameron Mackenzie Dickson , Eduard Kontar

The cosmic ray energy spectra encode very important information about the mechanisms that generate relativistic particles in the Milky Way, and about the properties of the Galaxy that control their propagation. Relativistic electrons and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Paolo Lipari

Solar type III radio bursts contain a wealth of information about the dynamics of electron beams in the solar corona and the inner heliosphere; currently unobtainable through other means. However, the motion of different regions of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

We investigate accelerated electron energy spectra for different sources in a large flare using simultaneous observations obtained with two instruments, the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph (NoRH) at 17 and 34 GHz, and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. R. Kundu , V. V. Grechnev , S. M. White , E. J. Schmahl , N. S. Meshalkina , L. K. Kashapova

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

We present radio and X-ray observations of an impulsive solar flare that was moderately intense in microwaves, yet showed very meager EUV and X-ray emission. The flare occurred on 2001 Oct 24 and was well-observed at radio wavelengths by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 T. S. Bastian , G. D. Fleishman , D. E. Gary