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We study event-to-event variations in the abundance enhancements of the elements He through Pb for Fe-rich impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events, and their relationship with properties of associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Donald V. Reames , Edward W. Cliver , Stephen W. Kahler

RHESSI measurements relevant to the fundamental processes of energy release and particle acceleration in flares are summarized. RHESSI's precise measurements of hard X-ray continuum spectra enable model-independent deconvolution to obtain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-11 R. P. Lin

We study the relationship between implosive motions in a solar flare, and the energy redistribution in the form of oscillatory structures and particle acceleration. The flare SOL2012-03-09T03:53 (M6.4) shows clear evidence for an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. J. A. Simões , L. Fletcher , H. S. Hudson , A. J. B. Russell

{\sl Ground Level Enhancement (GLE)} events represent the largest class of {\sl solar energetic particle (SEP)} events that require acceleration processes to produce $\gapprox 1$ GeV ions in order to produce showers of secondary particles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-02 Markus J. Aschwanden

We study particle acceleration at the termination shock of a striped pulsar wind by integrating trajectories in a prescribed model of the magnetic field and flow pattern. Drift motion on the shock surface maintains either electrons or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Gwenael Giacinti , John G. Kirk

There are still debates whether particle acceleration in solar flares may occur due to interruption of electric currents flowing along magnetic loops. To contribute to this problem, we performed the first statistical study of relationships…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 I. V. Zimovets , I. N. Sharykin , W. Q. Gan

We use more than 4,500 microflares from the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) microflare data set (Christe et al., 2008, Ap. J., 677, 1385) to estimate electron densities and volumetric filling factors of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-21 R. N. Baylor , P. A. Cassak , S. Christe , I. G. Hannah , Säm Krucker , D. J. Mullan , M. A. Shay , H. S. Hudson , R. P. Lin

We address the problem of particle acceleration in solar flares by fast modes which may be excited during the reconnection and undergo cascade and are subjected to damping. We extend the calculations beyond quasilinear approximation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian , V. Petrosian

X-rays are a valuable diagnostic tool for the study of high energy accelerated electrons. Bremsstrahlung X-rays produced by, and directly related to, high energy electrons accelerated during a flare, provide a powerful diagnostic tool for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-09 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey

The excess broadening of high-temperature spectral lines, long observed near the tops of flare arcades, is widely considered to result from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. According to different theories, plasma turbulence is also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 William Ashfield , Vanessa Polito , Sijie Yu , Hannah Collier , Laura Hayes

Aims: To calculate the power budget for electron acceleration and the efficiency of the plasma emission mechanism in a post-flare decimetric continuum source. Methods: We have imaged a high brightness temperature ($\sim 10^{9}$K) post-flare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 Prasad Subramanian , S. M. White , M. Karlický , R. Sych , H. S. Sawant , S. Ananthakrishnan

A new electron acceleration mechanism is identified that develops when a relativistically intense laser irradiates the wedge of an over-dense plasma. This induces a diffracted electromagnetic wave with a significant longitudinal electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 S. Marini , P. S. Kleij , M. Grech , M. Raynaud , C. Riconda

We calculate the electron acceleration in random superluminal strong waves (SLSWs) and radiation from them by using numerical methods in the context of the termination shock of the pulsar wind nebulae. We pursue the electrons by solving the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Yuto Teraki , Hirotaka Ito , Shigehiro Nagataki

The source of high-energy protons (>500 MeV) responsible for the so-called ground level enhancements (GLEs) remains an open question in solar physics. One of the candidates is a shock wave driven by a coronal mass ejection, which is thought…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 A. Afanasiev , R. Vainio , A. P. Rouillard , M. Battarbee , A. Aran , P. Zucca

In solar energetic particle (SEP) events, the physical processes of both shock acceleration and scattering during transport can cause energy-spectral indices to be correlated with enhancement or suppression of element abundances versus…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-29 Donald V. Reames

We observe plasma flows in cool loops using the Slit-Jaw Imager (SJI) onboard the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS). Huang et al. (2015) observed unusually broadened Si IV 1403 angstrom line profiles at the footpoints of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 A. K. Srivastava , Yamini K. Rao , P. Konkol , K. Murawski , M. Mathioudakis , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , E. Scullion , J. G. Doyle , B. N. Dwivedi

This paper studies acceleration processes of background thermal electrons in X-ray binary jets via turbulent stochastic interactions and shock collisions. By considering turbulent magnetized jets mixed with fluctuation magnetic fields and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Jian-Fu Zhang , Zhi-Ren Li , Fu-Yuan Xiang , Ju-Fu Lu

We model the acceleration of electrons at a shock front in a relativistic blazar jet and compute the radiation they emit in a post-shock region which contains a homogeneous magnetic field. The full space, time and momentum dependence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. G. Kirk , F. M. Rieger , A. Mastichiadis

Using plasma mirror injection we demonstrate, both analytically and numerically, that a circularly polarized helical laser pulse can accelerate highly collimated dense bunches of electrons to several hundred MeV using currently available…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Yin Shi , David Blackman , Alexey Arefiev

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 $\sim 300$…