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Context. Interplanetary (IP) shock waves offer an unparalleled opportunity to directly study the elusive mechanisms of particle acceleration that are pervasive in our Universe. Novel spacecraft missions, orbiting poorly-explored regions of…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Domenico Trotta , Timothy S. Horbury , Joe Giacalone

This letter presents the results of an advanced parametrization of the solar wind electron temperature anisotropy and the instabilities resulting from the interplay of the (bi-)Maxwellian core and (bi-)Kappa halo populations in the slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 M. Lazar , S. M. Shaaban , V. Pierrard , H. Fichtner , S. Poedts

Particle velocity distribution functions (VDF) in space plasmas often show non Maxwellian suprathermal tails decreasing as a power law of the velocity. Such distributions are well fitted by the so-called Kappa distribution. The presence of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Pierrard , M. Lazar

Understanding the thermal and turbulence properties of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) is essential for analyzing their evolution and interactions with the surrounding medium. This study explores these characteristics across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra

Using Monte Carlo Collisions (MCC) method, we have performed simulations of ion velocity distribution functions (IVDF) taking into account both elastic collisions and charge exchange collisions of ions with atoms in uniform electric fields…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Huihui Wang , Vladimir S Sukhomlinov , Igor D Kaganovich , Alexander S Mustafaev

Energetic electrons are a common feature of interplanetary shocks and planetary bow shocks, and they are invoked as a key component of models of nonthermal radio emission, such as solar radio bursts. A simulation study is carried out of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Burgess

This paper investigates the onset time of Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events with numerical simulations, and analyses the accuracy of the Velocity Dispersion Analysis (VDA) method. Using a 3-dimensional focused transport model, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. Wang , G. Qin

Plasmas in Earth's outer magnetosphere, magnetosheath, and solar wind are essentially collisionless. This means particle distributions are not typically in thermodynamic equilibrium and deviate significantly from Maxwellian distributions.…

We examine the Velocity Distribution Function (VDF) in dark matter halos from Milky Way to cluster mass scales. We identify an empirical model for the VDF with a wider peak and a steeper tail than a Maxwell--Boltzmann distribution, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-25 Yao-Yuan Mao , Louis E. Strigari , Risa H. Wechsler , Hao-Yi Wu , Oliver Hahn

The redshift-space correlation function $\xi_s$ for projected galaxy separations $\simless 1h^{-1}$ Mpc can be expressed as the convolution of the real-space correlation function with the galaxy pairwise velocity distribution function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Antonaldo Diaferio , Margaret J. Geller

Given their uniqueness, the Ulysses data can still provide us with valuable new clues about the properties of plasma populations in the solar wind, and, especially, about their variations with heliographic coordinates. We revisit the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Klaus Scherer , Edin Husidic , Marian Lazar , Horst Fichtner

The pseudo-potential method is applied to derive diverse propagating electron hole structures, in a nonthermal or $\kappa$ particle distribution function background. The associated distribution function Ansatz reproduces the Schamel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Fernando Haas

The X-ray emission of coronal flare sources can be explained considering the kappa electron distribution. Motivated by this fact, we study the problem of how hot plasma with the kappa distribution of electrons is confined in these sources.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 Jan Benáček , Marian Karlický

Interplanetary shocks are large-scale heliospheric structures often caused by eruptive phenomena at the Sun, and represent one of the main sources of energetic particles. Several interplanetary shock crossings by spacecraft at $1$ AU have…

Spectroscopic observations made by the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) during the 2012 March 7 X5.4-class flare (SOL2012-03-07T00:07) are analyzed for signatures of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Elena Dzifcakova , Alena Zemanova , Jaroslav Dudik , Simon Mackovjak

To establish the electron energy distribution function (EEDF), the second derivative of a Langmuir probe current-voltage (I-V) characteristic is numerically integrated using the Tikhonov singular value decomposition regularized method. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cesar Gutierrez-Tapia , Hector Flores Llamas

X-ray observations provide important and valuable insights into the acceleration and propagation of nonthermal electrons during solar flares. Improved X-ray spectral analysis requires a deeper understanding of the dynamics of energetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yingjie Luo , Eduard P. Kontar , Debesh Bhattacharjee

This paper analyzes a situation which is common for magnetized technical plasmas such as dc magnetron discharges and HiPIMS systems, where secondary electrons enter the plasma after being accelerated in the cathode fall and encounter a…

For a spherical dark matter halo with isotropic velocity distribution, the phase space distribution function (DF), the energy distribution, and the density profile form a set of self-consistent description of its equilibrium state, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Axel Gross , Zhaozhou Li , Yong-Zhong Qian

Shock accelerated electrons are found in many astrophysical environments, and the mechanisms by which they are accelerated to high energies are still not completely clear. For relatively high Mach numbers, the shock is supercritical, and…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 D. Trotta , D. Burgess
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