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We present particle-in-cell simulations of one dimensional relativistic electromagnetic shocks in a uniform magnetic field, for a range of magnetic field strengths, plasma temperatures and numerical initial conditions. We show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-17 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Patrick Kilian , Guangye Chen , Chengkun Huang , Fan Guo , Lucian Sahd , Makana Silva

According to the standard scenario of plasma emission, escaping radiations are generated by the nonlinear development of the kinetic bump-on-tail instability driven by a single beam of energetic electrons interacting with plasmas. Here we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yao Chen , Zilong Zhang , Sulan Ni , Hao Ning , Chuanyang Li , Yaokun Li

The radiation of pulsars have been observed for many years. A few pulsars are discovered to have both radio and gamma-ray emission. Many models on pulsar radiation have been developed, but so far we are still lacking an elaborate model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 G. J. Qiao , K. J. Lee , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu

Coherent radio emission via electron cyclotron maser emission (ECME) from hot magnetic stars was discovered more than two decades ago, but the physical conditions that make the generation of ECME favourable remain uncertain. Only recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Barnali Das , Poonam Chandra , Matt E. Shultz , Paolo Leto , Zdeněk Mikulášek , Véronique Petit , Gregg A. Wade

A beam of super-thermal, hot electrons was injected into maxwellian plasma with a density gradient along a magnetic field line. 1.5D particle-in-cell simulations were carried out which established that the EM emission is produced by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-07 Roman Pechhacker , David Tsiklauri

Aims. The simulation of three-wave interaction based plasma emission, thought to be the underlying mechanism for Type III solar radio bursts, is a challenging task requiring fully-kinetic, multi-dimensional models. This paper aims to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 J. O. Thurgood , D. Tsiklauri

Radio and X-ray emission from compact sources with accretion disks (active galactic nuclei, pulsars and X-ray binaries) is considered. It is shown that both radio and X-ray emission from these sources can be interpreted as emission of a hot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 F. V. Prigara

In present paper, we describe a theoretical model of generation of harmonic emissions of type III solar radio bursts. The goal of our study is to fully take into account the most efficient physical processes participating in generation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Anna Tkachenko , Vladimir Krasnoselskikh , Andrii Voshchepynets

We consider critically the three most widely favored pulsar radio emission mechanisms: coherent curvature emission (CCE), beam-driven relativistic plasma emission (RPE) and anomalous Doppler emission (ADE). We assume that the pulsar plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 D. B. Melrose , M. Z. Rafat , A. Mastrano

Fast radio bursts are mysterious transient sources likely located at cosmological distances. The derived brightness temperatures exceed by many orders of magnitude the self-absorption limit of incoherent synchrotron radiation, implying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Gustavo E. Romero , Maria Victoria del Valle , Florencia L. Vieyro

The fast (ms) radio bursts reported by Thornton, {\it et al.} have extremely high brightness temperatures if at the inferred cosmological distances. This implies coherent emission by "bunches" of charges. We model the emission region as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 J. I. Katz

We propose a novel idea for the coherent intense millisecond radio emission of cosmic fast radio bursts (FRBs), which have recently been identified with flares from a magnetar. Motivated by the conventional paradigm of Type III solar radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Edison Liang

Coherent radio emission from stars can be used to constrain fundamental coronal plasma parameters, such as plasma density and magnetic field strength. It is also a probe of chromospheric and magnetospheric acceleration mechanisms. Close…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 S. E. B. Toet , H. K. Vedantham , J. R. Callingham , K. C. Veken , T. W. Shimwell , P. Zarka , H. J. A. Röttgering , A. Drabent

A theory of pulsar radio emission generation, in which the observed waves are produced directly by maser-type plasma instabilities operating at the anomalous cyclotron-Cherenkov resonance $\omega- k_{\parallel} v_{\parallel} + \omega_B/…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maxim Lyutikov , Roger D. Blandford , George Machabeli

Here we experimentally map the dynamics of electron plasma waves in laser solid interaction. We do time resolved measurements of second harmonic and hard X-ray generation from interaction of intense ($10^{16} W cm^{-2}$, 100 fs, 800nm)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arvinder S. Sandhu , G. Ravindra Kumar , S. Sengupta , A. Das , P. K. Kaw

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions of magnetized plasma that may cause severe geomagnetic storms if Earth-directed. Here we report a rare instance with comprehensive in situ and remote sensing observa- tions of a CME…

Electromagnetic radiation at higher harmonics of the plasma frequency ($\omega \sim n\omega_{pe}, n > 2$) has been occasionally observed in type II and type III solar radio bursts, yet the underlying mechanism remains undetermined. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Chuanyang Li , Yao Chen , Zilong Zhang , Hao Ning , TangMu Li

A simple mechanism for the generation of electromagnetic Zebra pattern emission is proposed. The mechanism is based on the generation of an ion-ring distribution in a magnetic mirror geometry in the presence of a properly directed…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 R. A. Treumann , R. Nakamura , W. Baumjohann

Cosmic ray air showers have been known for over 30 years to emit pulsed radio emission in the frequency range from a few to a few hundred MHz, an effect that offers great opportunities for the study of extensive air showers with upcoming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

We develop a model of the generation of coherent radio emission in the Crab pulsar, magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Emission is produced by a reconnection-generated beam of particles via a variant of Free Electron Laser (FEL)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 Maxim Lyutikov