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Nonthermal relativistic plasmas are ubiquitous in astrophysical systems like pulsar wind nebulae and active galactic nuclei, as inferred from their emission spectra. The underlying nonthermal particle acceleration (NTPA) processes have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Kai Wong , Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

In this paper we derive the dielectric tensor for a plasma containing particles described by an anisotropic superthermal (bi-kappa) velocity distribution function. The tensor components are written in terms of the two-variables kappa plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Rudi Gaelzer , Luiz Fernando Ziebell , Anelise Ramires Meneses

Recently a novel concept for collisionless electron heating and plasma generation at low pressures was proposed theoretically (U Czarnetzki and Kh Tarnev, Phys. Plasmas 21 (2014) 123508). It is based on periodically structured vortex fields…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Philipp Ahr , Tsanko V. Tsankov , Jan Kuhfeld , Uwe Czarnetzki

When the pressure of particles accelerated at shock waves is no longer negligible compared to the kinetic pressure of the gas, the linear theory of diffusive shock acceleration breaks down. This is expected in particular when the shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Thibault Vieu , Stefano Gabici , Vincent Tatischeff

In the Heliosphere, power-law particle distributions are observed e.g. upstream of interplanetary shocks, which can result from superdiffusive transport. This non-Gaussian transport regime may result from intermittent magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 Sophie Aerdker , Lukas Merten , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Julia Becker Tjus

In this letter, we determine the $\kappa$-distribution function for a gas in the presence of an external field of force described by a potential U(${\bf r}$). In the case of a dilute gas, we show that the $\kappa$-power law distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Silva , R. Silva , J. A. S. Lima

Heat transport in the cuprate superconductors YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{y}$ and La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ was measured at low temperatures as a function of doping. A residual linear term kappa_{0}/T is observed throughout the superconducting region…

Direct comparisons of diffusive particle acceleration numerical simulations have been made against Monte Carlo and hybrid plasma simulations by Ellison {\it et. al.} (1993) and against observations at the earth's bow shock presented by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones

Energetic particles are ubiquitous in space and astrophysical plasmas, and interplanetary shocks are widely regarded as one of the main particle accelerators in the heliosphere. Indeed, in-situ measurements typically show that energetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Giuseppe Prete , Gaetano Zimbardo , Silvia Perri

Context. Solar energetic particles observed in association with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are produced by the CME-driven shock waves. The acceleration of particles is considered to be due to diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). Aims. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Alexandr Afanasiev , Markus Battarbee , Rami Vainio

Radio relics could be generated by multiple shocks induced in the turbulent intracluster medium during galaxy mergers. Kang (2021) demonstrated that the re-acceleration of cosmic ray (CR) protons via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-05 Hyesung Kang

We use large hybrid (kinetic protons-fluid electrons) simulations to investigate the transport of energetic particles in self-consistent electromagnetic configurations of collisionless shocks. In previous papers of this series, we showed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Estimating the cosmic-ray acceleration efficiency $ \epsilon $ in supernova remnants (SNRs) through observations is a challenging task in general. Based on the Rankine-Hugoniot shock conditions, we find an anticorrelation between $ \epsilon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-21 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu

When two galaxy clusters encounter each other, the interaction results in a collisionless shock that is characterized by a low (1-4) sonic Mach number, and a high Alfv{\'e}nic Mach number. Our goal is to determine if, and to what extent,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Allard Jan van Marle

The thermal conductivity \kappa is measured in a series of La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} (x = 0 - 0.22) single crystals down to 90 mK to elucidate the evolution of the residual electronic thermal conductivity \kappa_{res}, which probes the extended…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Takeya , Yoichi Ando , Seiki Komiya , X. F. Sun

We establish a connection between anomalous heat conduction and anomalous diffusion in one dimensional systems. It is shown that if the mean square of the displacement of the particle is $<\Delta x^2> =2Dt^{\alpha} (0<\alpha\le 2)$, then…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Baowen Li , Jiao Wang

The equation $\kappa_{zz}=d\sigma^2/(2dt)$ (hereafter DCDV) is a well-known formula of energetic particles describing the relation of parallel diffusion coefficient $\kappa_{zz}$ with the parallel displacement variance $\sigma^2$. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 J. F. Wang , G. Qin

The path probability method (PPM) in the tetrahedron-cactus approximation is applied to the Slater-Takagi model with dipole-dipole interaction for KH2PO4-type hydrogen-bonded ferroelectric crystals in order to derive a small dip structure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Yoshida , N. Ihara , K. Wada

This paper studies sufficient conditions for deriving the kappa distribution in polytropic plasmas by an improved method compared with the previous work [R. Guo, Phys. Plasmas \textbf{27}, 122104 (2020)]. We find that the polytropic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Ran Guo

The stochastic acceleration of subrelativistic electrons from a background plasma is studied in order to find a possible explanation of the hard X-ray (HXR) emission detected from the Coma cluster. We calculate the necessary energy supply…