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The acceleration of interstellar pick-up ions as well as solar wind species has been observed at a multitude of interplanetary (IP) shocks by different spacecraft. This paper expands upon previous work modeling the phase space distributions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Matthew G. Baring , Errol J. Summerlin

The earliest evidence on spatial distributions of solar energetic particles (SEPs) compared events from many different source longitudes on the Sun, but the early Pioneers provided the first evidence of the large areas of equal SEP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-14 Donald V. Reames

We present a new method to extract the three-dimensional electron density profile and density compression ratio of shock fronts associated with Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) observed in white light coronagraph images. We demonstrate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-16 Ryun-Young Kwon , Angelos Vourlidas

We present a new method to construct fully self-consistent equilibrium models of multi-component disc galaxies similar to the Milky Way. We define distribution functions for the stellar disc and dark halo that depend on phase space position…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-03 T. Piffl , Z. Penoyre , J. Binney

Measurements of the ARINA instrument on board the Resurs-DK1 satellite (altitude $\sim$ 600 km and inclination $\sim$ 70$^{o}$, since 2006 till 2016) and the VSPLESK instrument on board the International Space Station (altitude $\sim$ 400…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-02 S. Yu. Aleksandrin , A. M. Galper , S. V. Koldashov , M. A. Mayorova , T. R. Zharaspayev

Using data from the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer aboard Hinode, we have studied the coronal plasma in the core of two active regions. Concentrating on the area between opposite polarity moss, we found emission measure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Durgesh Tripathi , James A. Klimchuk , Helen E. Mason

The acceleration of suprathermal electrons in the solar wind is mainly associated with shocks driven by interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). It is well known that the acceleration of electrons is much more efficient at…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 F. -J. Kong , G. Qin

Non-equilibrium energy dissipation in multi-shell swift-ion/matter systems remains a fundamental yet incompletely understood problem, with electronic stopping power $\mathcal{S}_\text{e}$ as a relevant observable for electronic friction.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-01 Runfeng Zhou , Emilio Artacho

In the present paper we show how obtain the energy distribution f(E) in our vicinity starting from WIMP density profiles in a self consistent way by employing the Eddington approach and adding reasonable angular momentum dependent terms in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-04 J. D. Vergados

We perform 2.5D hybrid simulations with massless fluid electrons and kinetic particle-in-cell ions to study the temporal evolution of ion temperatures, temperature anisotropies and velocity distribution functions in relation to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. G. Maneva , Adolfo F. Viñas , Pablo S. Moya , R. Wicks , S. Poedts

Context: Solar flares accelerate electrons, creating non-thermal energy distributions. However, the acceleration sites and dominant acceleration mechanisms remain largely unknown. Aims: We study the characteristics of electron acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Eilif S. Øyre , Boris V. Gudiksen , Lyndsay Fletcher

We present the results of two-temperature magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the propagation of sub-relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei. The dependence of the electron and ion temperature distributions on the fraction of electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 T. Ohmura , M. Machida , K. E. Nakamura , Y. Kudoh , R. Matsumoto

Context. Solar energetic particles (SEPs) are detected in interplanetary space in association with solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The magnetic connection between the observing spacecraft and the solar active region (AR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 S. Dalla , A. Hutchinson , R. A. Hyndman , K. Kihara , N. Nitta , L. Rodriguez-Garcia , T. Laitinen , C. O. G. Waterfall , D. S. Brown

Interplanetary shocks are one of the proposed sources of suprathermal ion populations (i.e., ions with energies of a few times the solar wind energy). Here, we present results from a series of three-dimensional hybrid simulations of…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Matthew A. Young , Bernard J. Vasquez , Harald Kucharek , Noé Lugaz

We study the statistical distribution of components in the non-perturbative parts of energy eigenfunctions (EFs), in which main bodies of the EFs lie. Our numerical simulations in five models show that deviation of the distribution from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Jiaozi Wang , Wen-ge Wang

The aim of this study is to clarify if the assumption of ionization equilibrium and a Maxwellian electron energy distribution is valid in flaring solar plasmas. We analyze the 2014 December 20 X1.8 flare, in which the \ion{Fe}{xxi} 187~\AA,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Tomoko Kawate , Francis P. Keenan , David B. Jess

Solar flares are efficient particle accelerators with a large fraction of released magnetic energy (10-50%) converted into energetic particles such as hard X-ray producing electrons. This energy transfer process is not well constrained,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Morgan Stores , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , James A. McLaughlin

Daily differential emission measure (DEM) distributions of the solar corona are derived from spectra obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) over a 4-year period starting in 2010 near solar minimum and continuing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Samuel J. Schonfeld , Stephen M. White , Rachel A. Hock-Mysliwiec , R. T. James McAteer

Solar flares effectively accelerate particles to non-thermal energies. These accelerated electrons are responsible for energy transport and subsequent emissions in HXR, radio, and UV/EUV radiation. Due to the steeply decreasing electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yingjie Luo , Eduard P. Kontar , Debesh Bhattacharjee

The early acceleration of protons and electrons in the nonrelativistic collisionless shocks with three obliquities are investigated through 1D particle-in-cell simulations. In the simulations, the charged particles possessing a velocity of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Jun Fang , Chun-Yan Lu , Jing-Wen Yan , Huan Yu