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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

We perform a series of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the rotational core-collapse of a magnetized massive star. We employ a realistic equation of state and take into account the neutrino cooling by the so-called leakage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Shigehiro Nagataki , Katsuhiko Sato

Cosmic rays accelerated by a shock form a streaming distribution of outgoing particles in the foreshock region. If the ambient fields are negligible compared to the shock and cosmic ray energetics, a stronger magnetic field can be generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mikhail V. Medvedev , Olga V. Zakutnyaya

We statistically investigate high-frequency whistler waves (with frequencies higher than $\sim 10$ % of the local elect ron cyclotron frequency) at Earth's bow shock using Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) spacecraft observations. We focus…

Context. The influence of magnetic fields on stellar core collapse and explosion is not well explored. It depends on the possibility to amplify the pre-collapse fields. Without rotation this can happen by compression, convection, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Obergaulinger , Hans-Thomas Janka

The study of the acceleration of particles is an essential element of research in the heliospheric science. Here, we discuss the predisposition to the particle acceleration around coronal mass ejections (CMEs)-driven shocks with corrugated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 A. Páez , V. Jatenco-Pereira , D. Falceta-Gonçalves , M. Opher

Clusters of galaxies are believed to be capable to accelerate protons at accretion shocks to energies exceeding 10^18 eV. At these energies, the losses caused by interactions of cosmic rays with photons of the Cosmic Microwave Background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 G. Vannoni , F. A. Aharonian , S. Gabici , S. R. Kelner , A. Prosekin

The transport of the energy contained in electrons, both thermal and suprathermal, in solar flares plays a key role in our understanding of many aspects of the flare phenomenon, from the spatial distribution of hard X-ray emission to global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie

Nonthermal loop-top sources in solar flares are the most prominent observational signature that suggests energy release and particle acceleration in the solar corona. Although several scenarios for particle acceleration have been proposed,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiangliang Kong , Fan Guo , Chengcai Shen , Bin Chen , Yao Chen , Sophie Musset , Lindsay Glesener , Peera Pongkitiwanichakul , Joe Giacalone

We investigate the effects of acceleration during non-linear electron-beam relaxation in magnetized plasma in the case of electron transport in solar flares. The evolution of electron distribution functions is computed using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar

First-order Fermi acceleration processes at ultrarelativistic shocks are studied with Monte Carlo simulations. The accelerated particle spectra are obtained by integrating the exact particle trajectories in a turbulent magnetic field near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacek Niemiec

An outstanding problem in heliospheric physics is understanding the acceleration of solar energetic particles (SEP) in coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares. A fundamental question is whether the acceleration occurs in interplanetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Kamen Kozarev , Maher A. Dayeh , Ashraf Farahat

We report a newly found two-stage mechanism of electron acceleration near X-lines of 3D collisionless guide-field magnetic reconnection in the non-relativistic regime typical, e.g., for stellar coronae. We found that after electrons are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 P. A. Muñoz , J. Büchner

Plasma density gradients are known to drive magnetic shocks in electron-magnetohydrodynamics (EMHD). Previous slab modeling has been extended to cylindrical modeling of radially imploding shocks. The main new effect of the cylindrical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. S. Richardson , S. B. Swanekamp , S. L. Jackson , D. Mosher , P. F. Ottinger

The manuscript deals with electron acceleration by a laser pulse in a plasma with a static uniform magnetic field $B_*$. The laser pulse propagates perpendicular to the magnetic field lines with the polarization chosen such that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 A. Arefiev , Z. Gong , A. P. L. Robinson

Collisionless shocks are ubiquitous structures throughout the universe. Shock waves in space and astrophysical plasmas convert the energy of a fast-flowing plasma to other forms of energy, including thermal and magnetic energies. Plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Hadi Madanian , Imogen Gingell , Li-Jen Chen , Eli Monyek

Thermal electrons cannot directly participate in the process of diffusive acceleration at electron-ion shocks because their Larmor radii are smaller than the shock transition width: this is the well-known electron injection problem of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 Mohamad Shalaby , Rouven Lemmerz , Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

The interrelation of hard X-ray (HXR) emitting sources and the underlying physics of electron acceleration and transport presents one of the major questions in high-energy solar flare physics. Spatially resolved observations of solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Paulo J. A. Simões , Eduard P. Kontar

In this paper we show that the phase mixing of continuum Alfv\'{e}n waves and/or continuum slow waves in magnetic structures of the solar atmosphere as, e.g., coronal arcades, can create the illusion of wave propagation across the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 T. Kaneko , M. Goossens , R. Soler , J. Terradas , T. Van Doorsselaere , T. Yokoyama , A. N. Wright

In recent work we suggested that photons of energy >100 MeV detected from GRBs by the Fermi Satellite are produced via synchrotron emission in the external forward shock with a weak magnetic field - consistent with shock compressed upstream…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Pawan Kumar