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The properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate that the physical origin of this type of astrophysical phenomenon is related to neutron stars. The first detected repeating source, FRB 121102, is associated with a persistent radio…

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Drift-pair bursts are an unusual type of solar low-frequency radio emission, which appear in the dynamic spectra as two parallel drifting bright stripes separated in time. Recent imaging spectroscopy observations allowed for the…

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Coherent radio emission from pulsars originates from excited plasma waves in an ultra-relativistic and strongly magnetized electron-positron pair plasma streaming along the open magnetic field lines of the pulsar. Traditional coherent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

Observational detection of quasi-periodic drifting fine structures in a type III radio burst associated with a solar flare SOL2015-04-16T11:22, with Low Frequency Array, is presented. Although similar modulations of the type III emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Eduard P. Kontar

Giant pulses (GPs) are extremely bright individual pulses of radio pulsar. In microbursts of Crab pulsar, which is an active GP emitter, zebra-pattern-like spectral structures are observed, which are reminiscent of the `zebra bands' that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Weiyang Wang , Jiguang Lu , Songbo Zhang , Xuelei Chen , Rui Luo , Renxin Xu

By assuming the inverse square law of solar wind plasma density as representative of other stars, it is shown that just outside a star the {\it outward} deflection of a passing radio signal at $\nu\approx 1$~GHz (which is capable of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Richard Lieu

The electron beam-plasma system is ubiquitous in the space plasma environment. Here, using a Darwin particle-in-cell method, the excitation of electrostatic and whistler instabilities by a gyrating electron beam is studied in support of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Xin An , Jacob Bortnik , Bart Van Compernolle , Viktor Decyk , Richard Thorne

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, short-duration radio transients with very high brightness temperatures implying highly coherent emission. We suggest that the FRBs are caused by the self-focusing of an electron beam interacting with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Mustafa Doğan , Kazım Yavuz Ekşi

Narrowband (~5 MHz) and short-lived (~0.01 s) spikes with three different distributions on the 800-2000 MHz radio spectrum of the 13 June 2012 flare are detected and analyzed. We designate them as SB (spikes distributed in broad band or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-12 M. Karlicky , J. Rybak , J. Benacek , J. Kasparova

The association of persistent radio sources (PRSs) with repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) offers unique insights into their circum-burst environments. Building upon the physical link between PRS luminosity ($L_\nu$) and FRB rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Yuan-Pei Yang

Violent solar eruptions are often accompanied by relativistic beams of charged particles. In the solar context, they are referred to as SPEs (Solar Particle Events) and are known to generate a characteristic swept-frequency radio burst. Due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 H. K. Vedantham

Solar radio bursts exhibit complex fine structures that reveal intricate coronal plasma dynamics. Here, we report detection of spike-like repeating burst pairs, characterized by two short-lived (0.1-2 s), narrowband components separated by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Suli Ma , Eduard P. Kontar , Daniel L. Clarkson , Huadong Chen , Yihua Yan

The nature of solar wind (SW) turbulence below the proton gyroscale is a topic that is being investigated extensively nowadays. Although recent observations gave evidence of the dominance of Kinetic Alfv\'en Waves (KAW) at sub-ion scales…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Fouad Sahraoui , Gérard Belmont , Melvyn Goldstein

In the solar wind electron velocity distributions reveal two counter-moving populations which may induce electromagnetic (EM) beaming instabilities known as heat flux instabilities. Depending on plasma parameters two distinct branches of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 S. M. Shaaban , M. Lazar , S. Poedts

We present calculations of the spatial and spectral distribution of the radio emission from a wide WR+OB colliding-wind binary system based on high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations and solutions to the radiative transfer equation. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. M. Dougherty , J. M. Pittard , L. Kasian , R. F. Coker , P. M. Williams , H. M. Lloyd

The model explaining the spectral "zebra" pattern of the high-frequency interpulse (HFIP) of the Crab pulsar radio emission is proposed. The observed emission bands are diffraction fringes in the spectral domain. The pulsar's own…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Mikhail V. Medvedev

There are several phenomenological similarities between Soft Gamma Repeaters and Fast Radio Bursts, including duty factors, time scales and probable repetition. The sudden release of magnetic energy in a neutron star magnetosphere, as in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-23 J. I. Katz

In this paper we present, for the first time, simulated maps of the circularly polarized synchrotron emission from the Crab nebula, using multidimensional state of the art models for the magnetic field geometry. Synchrotron emission is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 N. Bucciantini , B. Olmi

The newly discovered second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source, FRB 180814.J0422+73, was reported to exhibit a time-frequency downward drifting pattern, which is also seen in the first repeater FRB 121102. We propose a generic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Weiyang Wang , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen , Renxin Xu

Binary systems that harbor a non-accreting pulsar are efficient non-thermal emitters, from radio to gamma rays. This broadband emission is thought to come from the region where the companion star and pulsar winds collide. A paradigmatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 V. Bosch-Ramon