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The impact of superthermal electrons on dispersion properties of isotropic plasmas and on the modulational instability of a monochromatic Langmuir wave is studied for the case when the power-law tail of the electron distribution function…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. V. Timofeev

A major open issue concerning the active Sun is the effectiveness with which magnetic reconnection accelerates electrons in flares. A paper published by {\em{Nature}} in 2022 used microwave observations to conclude that the Sun is an almost…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Anna Volpara , Paolo Massa , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone , A Gordon Emslie

In order to investigate the universality of magnetic turbulence in space plasmas we analyze seven time periods in the free solar wind of different origin, slow or fast, and under different plasma conditions. The orientation of magnetic…

Based on the diffusion-halo model for cosmic-ray (CR) propagation, including stochastic reacceleration due to collisions with hydromagnetic turbulence, we study the behavior of the electron component and the diffuse $\gamma$-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 T. Shibata , T. Ishikawa , S. Sekiguchi

The results of observation of short-term variations of high-energy electron flux in the outer radiation belt, obtained in ARINA satellite experiment (2006 - 2016), are presented. Scintillation spectrometer ARINA on board the Resurs-DK1…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-16 S. V. Koldashov , S. Yu. Aleksandrin , N. D. Eremina

The power spectrum of magnetic-field fluctuations in the fast solar wind ($V_{\rm SW}> 500 \mbox{ km} \mbox{ s}^{-1}$) at magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scales is characterized by two different power laws on either side of a break frequency…

We present a statistical study of chromospheric evaporation in solar flares using simultaneous observations by the RHESSI X-ray telescope and the IRIS UV spectrograph. The results are compared with radiation hydrodynamic flare models from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Viacheslav M Sadykov , Alexander G Kosovichev , Ivan N Sharykin , Graham S Kerr

We develop a kinetic theory for {the electron strahl, a beam of energetic electrons which propagate} from the sun along the Parker-spiral-shaped magnetic field lines. By assuming a Maxwellian electron distribution function in the near-sun…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Stanislav Boldyrev , Konstantinos Horaites

In this work, we simulate the evolution of the solar wind along its main sequence lifetime and compute its thermal radio emission. To study the evolution of the solar wind, we use a sample of solar mass stars at different ages. All these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-17 D. Ó Fionnagáin , A. A. Vidotto , P. Petit , C. P. Folsom , S. V. Jeffers , S. C. Marsden , J. Morin , J. -D. do Nascimento

The galactic cosmic rays (GCR) suffer from solar modulation when they propagate through the heliosphere. The transfer of the local interstellar spectrum (LIS) to the top-of-atmosphere spectra (TOA) is influenced by solar wind convection,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Cheng-Rui Zhu

While observations have suggested that power-law electron energy spectra are a common outcome of strong energy release during magnetic reconnection, e.g., in solar flares, kinetic simulations have not been able to provide definite evidence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Xiaocan Li , Fan Guo , Hui Li , Adam Stanier , Patrick Kilian

Solar flares are sudden energy release events in the solar corona, resulting from magnetic reconnection, that accelerates particles and heats the ambient plasma. During a flare, there are often multiple, temporally and spatially separated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Rohit Sharma , Marina Battaglia , Yingjie Luo , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu

Analysis of the hydrodynamic and helioseismic effects in the photosphere during the solar flare of July 23, 2002, observed by Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on SOHO, and high-energy images from RHESSI shows that these effects are closely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Kosovichev

The electrostatic decay enables energy transfer from a finite amplitude Langmuir to a backscattered daughter Langmuir wave and ion acoustic density fluctuations. This mechanism is thought to be a first step for the generation of type III…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 P. Henri , F. Califano , C. Briand , A. Mangeney

The evolution of the solar wind electron distribution function with heliocentric distance exhibits different features that are still unexplained, in particular, the increase of the Strahl pitch angle width. Wave-particle interactions…

The Sun's proximity offers us a unique opportunity to study in detail the physical processes on a star's surface; however, the highly dynamic nature of the stellar surface -- in particular, energetic eruptions such as flares and coronal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Haosheng Lin , Tetsu Anan , Gianna Cauzzi , Lyndsay Fletcher , Pei Huang , Adam Kowalski , Maxim Kramar , Jiong Qiu , Jenna Samra , Constance Spittler , Takashi Sukegawa , Gregory Wirth

Recent research raises the possibility that 3 and 7 million years ago, the Sun encountered massive clouds that shrank the heliosphere--the solar cocoon protecting our solar system--exposing Earth to its interstellar environment, in…

In the full-orbit particle simulations of energetic particle transport in plasmas, the plasma turbulence is typically described as a homogeneous superposition of linear Fourier modes. The turbulence evolution is, however, typically a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Timo Laitinen , Silvia Dalla , James Kelly

High-energy solar flares have shown to have at least two distinct phases: prompt-impulsive and delayed-gradual. Identifying the mechanism responsible for accelerating the electrons and ions and the site at which it occurs during these two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Nicola Omodei , Vahe' Petrosian , Francesco Longo

This paper presents a solely thermal flare, which we detected in the microwave range from the thermal gyro- and free-free emission it produced. An advantage of analyzing thermal gyro emission is its unique ability to precisely yield the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary