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In this paper, we present observations of cold (0-70 eV) plasma density in the magnetotail lobes. The observations and results are based on 16 years of Cluster observation of spacecraft potential measurements converted into local plasma…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 S. Haaland , B. Lybekk , L. Maes , K. Laundal , A. Pedersen , P. Tenfjord , A. Ohma , N. Østgaard , J. Reistad , K. Snekvik

We report the creation of an ultracold neutral plasma by photoionization of laser-cooled xenon atoms. The charge carrier density is as high as 2 x 10^9 cm^-3, and the temperatures of electrons and ions are as low as 100 mK and 10 uK,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. C. Killian , S. Kulin , S. D. Bergeson , L. A. Orozco , C. Orzel , S. L. Rolston

The velocity pattern of a fan loop structure within a solar active region over the temperature range 0.15-1.5 MK is derived using data from the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board the Hinode satellite. The loop is aligned towards the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. R. Young , B. O'Dwyer , H. E. Mason

Conduction may play an important role in reducing cooling flows in galaxy clusters. We analyse a sample of sixteen objects using Chandra data and find that a balance between conduction and cooling can exist in the hotter clusters (T > 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 L. M. Voigt , A. C. Fabian

After discovery of the Fermi bubbles, giant structures observed in radio to X-rays have been discussed as possi- ble evidence of past activities in the Galactic Center (GC). We report here on the analysis of Suzaku data pointing around the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Masahiro Akita , Jun Kataoka , Makoto Arimoto , Yoshiaki Sofue , Tomonori Totani , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Shinya Nakashima

Gas at high Galactic latitude is a relatively little-noticed component of the interstellar medium. In an effort to address this, forty-one Planck Galactic Cold Clumps at high Galactic latitude (HGal; $|b|>25^{\circ}$) were observed in…

We revisit the XMM-Newton observation of M87 focusing our attention on the temperature structure. We find that spectra for most regions of M87 can be adequately fit by single temperature models. Only in a few regions, which are cospatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Silvano Molendi

We present ISO observations of the S(0), S(1), S(2), and S(3) rotational lines of molecular hydrogen from two molecular clouds near the Galactic Center (GC). We have also measured continuum dust emission at infrared wavelengths with ISO and…

Sympathetic cooling is the process of energy exchange between a system and a colder bath. We investigate this fundamental process in an atom-ion experiment where the system is composed of a single ion, trapped in a radio-frequency Paul…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Ziv Meir , Meirav Pinkas , Tomas Sikorsky , Ruti Ben-shlomi , Nitzan Akerman , Roee Ozeri

The evolution of a solar flare accelerated non-thermal electron population and associated plasma emission is considered in collisional inhomogeneous plasma. Non-thermal electrons collisionally evolve to become unstable and generate Langmuir…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-10 Heather Ratcliffe , Eduard. P. Kontar

We report on the experimental observation of electron heating in electron-only magnetic reconnection in laser-driven laboratory mini-magnetospheres on the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at the University of California, Los Angeles. In this…

We exploit the influence of the Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes on the electron spin relaxation in a (110)-GaAs quantum well to unveil excitonic signatures within the many particle electron-hole system. The temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 S. Oertel , S. Kunz , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , J. Hübner , M. Oestreich

Time integrated spectroscopic measurements are carried out to characterize transient plasma stream produced in a coaxial pulsed plasma accelerator. This method allows the estimation of different plasma parameters and its evolution with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 A. Ahmed , S. Singha , S. Borthakur , N. K. Neog , T. K. Borthakur , J. Ghosh

We present a spectral analysis of cool and cooling gas in 45 cool-core clusters and groups of galaxies obtained from Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) XMM-$Newton$ observations. The high-resolution spectra show FeXVII emission in many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Haonan Liu , Ciro Pinto , Andrew C. Fabian , Helen R. Russell , Jeremy S. Sanders

The density profile of a cool core of intracluster gas is investigated for a cluster of galaxies that is initially in the virial equilibrium state, and then undergoes radiative cooling. The initial gas profile is derived under the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Naomi Ota , Kiyokazu Onzuka , Kuniaki Masai

In the majority of the literature on plasma shock waves, electrons play the role of "ghost particles," since their contribution to mass and momentum flows is negligible, and they have been treated as only taking care of the electric plasma…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hans J. Fahr , John D. Richardson , Daniel Verscharen

We present the analysis of the polarimetric and spectral data obtained for the dynamically new comet C/2012\,J1 (Catalina) when it was at a distance of 3.17~AU from the Sun. The observations were made at the prime focus of the 6-m BTA…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 O. Ivanova , O. Shubina , A. Moiseev , V. Afanasiev

The chemical composition of comets is frequently assumed to be directly provided by the observations of the abundances of volatile molecules in the coma. The present work aims to determine the relationship between the chemical composition…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 Ulysse Marboeuf , Bernard Schmitt

We present a long-duration ($\sim$10 years) statistical analysis of the temperatures, plasma betas, and temperature ratios for the electron, proton, and alpha-particle populations observed by the \emph{Wind} spacecraft near 1 AU. The…

We present X-ray data of RX J1802.1+1804 obtained by ASCA. Although it shows a clear orbital intensity modulation with an amplitude of nearly 100% below 0.5 keV in ROSAT data, the ASCA light curves are nearly flat except for a possible dip…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Ishida , J. Greiner , R. A. Remillard , C. Motch