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The heating of the solar corona and solar wind, through suprathermal particles and kinetic Alfv\'en waves within the 0 - 10 $R_{\rm Sun}$ range, has been a subject of great interest for many decades. This study investigates the acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 S. Ayaz , Gary P. Zank , Imran A. Khan , G. Li , Yeimy J. Rivera

Alfv\'enic waves are thought to play an important role in coronal heating and acceleration of solar wind. Here we investigated the statistical properties of Alfv\'enic waves along spicules (jets that protrude into the corona) in a polar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Takenori J. Okamoto , Bart De Pontieu

The present paper is the last of a series studying the first-order Fermi acceleration processes at relativistic shock waves with the method of Monte Carlo simulations applied to shocks propagating in realistically modeled turbulent magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacek Niemiec , Michal Ostrowski , Martin Pohl

We expand the off-resonant scattering theory for particle diffusion in magnetized current filaments that can be typically compared to astrophysical jets, including active galactic nucleus jets. In a high plasma beta region where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mitsuru Honda , Yasuko S. Honda

We present a model for the creation of non-thermal particles via diffusive shock acceleration in a colliding-wind binary. Our model accounts for the oblique nature of the global shocks bounding the wind-wind collision region and the finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 J. M. Pittard , G. E. Romero , G. S. Vila

The present work investigates the acceleration of test particles in balanced and imbalanced Alfv\'{e}nic turbulence, relevant to the solar-wind problem. These turbulent states, obtained numerically by prescribing the injection rates for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Bogdan Teaca , Martin S. Weidl , Frank Jenko , Reinhard Schlickeiser

We study the heating of charged test particles in three-dimensional numerical simulations of weakly compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence (``Alfvenic turbulence''); these results are relevant to particle heating and acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Remi Lehe , Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert

It is shown that two circularly polarised Alfv\'en waves that propagate along the ambient magnetic field in an uniform plasma trigger non oscillating electromagnetic field components when they cross each other. The non-oscilliating field…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Fabrice Mottez

We investigate the role of Alfven waves in the core-collapse supernova (SN) explosion. We assume that Alfven waves are generated by convections inside a proto-neutron star (PNS) and emitted from its surface. Then these waves propagate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. K. Suzuki , K. Sumiyoshi , S. Yamada

We perform numerical simulations of impulsively generated Alfv\'en waves in an isolated solar arcade, which is gravitationally stratified and magnetically confined. We study numerically the propagation of Alfv\'en waves along such magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Chmielewski , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , A. K. Srivastava

First-order Fermi acceleration process at a relativistic shock wave is investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations involving numerical integration of particle equations of motion in a turbulent magnetic field near the shock. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Niemiec , Michal Ostrowski

Context: Typical space plasmas contain spatially and temporally variable turbulent electromagnetic fields. Understanding the transport of energetic particles and the acceleration mechanisms for charged particles is an important goal of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz , I. Lerche , F. Kruse

The acceleration of charged particles at astrophysical collisionless shock waves is one of the best studied processes for the energization of particles to ultrarelativistic energies, required by multifrequency observations in a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pasquale Blasi

The first-order cosmic ray acceleration at ultrarelativistic shocks is investigated using the Monte Carlo method. We apply a method of discrete particle momentum scattering as a model of particle pitch angle diffusion to reproduce highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bednarz

Context. The diffusive shock acceleration mechanism has been widely accepted as the acceleration mechanism for galactic cosmic rays. While self-consistent hybrid simulations have shown how power-law spectra are produced, detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Wolff , R. C. Tautz

Shocks in astrophysical fluids can generate suprathermal particles by first order (or diffusive) Fermi acceleration. In the test particle regime there is a simple relation between the spectrum of the accelerated particles and the jump…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Pasquale Blasi

The process of cosmic ray first-order Fermi acceleration at relativistic shock waves is studied with the method of Monte Carlo simulations. The simulations are based on numerical integration of particle equations of motion in a turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jacek Niemiec , Michal Ostrowski

Solar energetic particles acceleration by a shock wave accompanying a coronal mass ejection (CME) is studied. The description of the accelerated particle spectrum evolution is based on the numerical calculation of the diffusive transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 A. S. Petukhova , I. S. Petukhov , S. I. Petukhov , L. T. Ksenofontov

We present numerical simulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in a magnetic flux tube at the center of a polar coronal hole. The model for the background atmosphere is a solution of the momentum equation, and includes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Asgari-Targhi

A comprehensive understanding of solar coronal heating and charged particle acceleration remains one of the most critical challenges in space and astrophysical plasma physics. In this study, we explore the contribution of Alfv\'en waves,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Syed Ayaz , Gary P. Zank , Imran A. Khan , Yeimy J. Rivera , Andreas Shalchi , L. -L. Zhao