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Solar flares are driven by release of the free magnetic energy and its conversion to other forms of energy -- kinetic, thermal, and nonthermal. Quantification of partitions between these energy components and their evolution is needed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Galina G. Motorina

Magnetar bursts can be emitted by Alfv\'en waves growing in the outer magnetosphere to nonlinear amplitudes, $\delta B/B\sim 1$, and triggering magnetic reconnection. Similar magnetic flares should occur quasi-periodically in a magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Andrei M. Beloborodov

We investigate the feasibility of detecting extensive air showers via their geo-synchrotron X-ray emission from high-altitude platforms. Starting from first principles, we derive a differential expression for the number of emitted photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Rodrigo Alberto Torres Saavedra , Caterina Trimarelli , Roberto Aloisio , John F. Krizmanic , Johannes Eser , Austin Cummings

Numerical models of solar flares typically focus on the behaviour of directly-heated flare models, adopting magnetic field- aligned, plane-parallel methodologies. With high spatial- and spectral-resolution ground-based optical observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Christopher M. J. Osborne , Lyndsay Fletcher

The new generations of multiwavelength radioheliographs with high spatial resolution will employ microwave imaging spectropolarimetry to recover flare topology and plasma parameters in the flare sources and along the wave propagation paths.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 A. Altyntsev , N. Meshalkina , I. Myshyakov , V. Pal`shin , G. Fleishman

We present the first fully simultaneous fits to the NIR and X-ray spectral slope (and its evolution) during a very bright flare from Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center. Our study arises from ambitious…

A complete set of diagnostic tools aimed at producing synthetic synchrotron emissivity, polarization, and spectral index maps from relativistic MHD simulations is presented. As a first application we consider here the case of the emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Del Zanna , Delia Volpi , Elena Amato , Niccolo' Bucciantini

Diagnosing solar flare conditions is essential for understanding coronal energy release. Using combined microwave and X-ray data, we reconstruct three-dimensional maps of the magnetic field and plasma parameters in the SOL2021-05-07 flare.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Tatyana Kaltman , Sijie Yu , Gregory D. Fleishman , Daniel F. Ryan

Considering the spatially separated polarization radiation and Faraday rotation regions to simulate complex interstellar media, we study synchrotron polarization gradient techniques' measurement capabilities. We explore how to trace the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Ru-Yue Wang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Hua-Ping Xiao , Fu-Yuan Xiang

Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers has the potential to become an additional, cost-effective observing technique for cosmic ray research, being largely complementary to the well-established particle detector and air fluorescence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

Three-dimensional numerical model is developed and applied for studies of physical processes in Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source. The model includes separate modules that simulate the electron and ion dynamics in the source plasma in…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 V. Mironov , S. Bogomolov , A. Bondarchenko , A. Efremov , V. Loginov , D. Pugachev

In this paper, electromagnetic emissions produced in a thin beam-plasma system are studied using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. For the first time, the problem of emission generation in such a system is considered in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 V. V. Annenkov , I. V. Timofeev , E. P. Volchok

In freeze drying, thermal radiation has a significant effect on the drying process of vials located near the corner and edge of the trays, resulting in non-uniformity of the products. Understanding and being able to predict the impact of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Prakitr Srisuma , George Barbastathis , Richard D. Braatz

The effect of pitch-angle anisotropy of fast electrons on generation of nonthermal radio emission is studied. Incoherent gyrosynchrotron radiation is shown to depend strongly on the anisotropy. In particular, the spectral index of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory D. Fleishman

Cosmic rays (CRs) interact with the gas, the radiation field and the magnetic field in the Milky Way, producing diffuse emission from radio to gamma rays. Observations of this diffuse emission and comparison with detailed predictions are…

During a solar flare, it is believed that reconnection takes place in the corona followed by fast energy transport to the chromosphere. The resulting intense heating strongly disturbs the chromospheric structure, and induces complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-30 Christopher M. J. Osborne , John A. Armstrong , Lyndsay Fletcher

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma turbulence is believed to play a vital role in the production of energetic electrons during solar flares and the non-thermal broadening of spectral lines is a key sign of this turbulence. Here, we determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Morgan Stores , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar

Heating signatures from small-scale magnetic reconnection events in the solar atmosphere have proven to be difficult to detect through observations. Numerical models that reproduce flaring conditions are essential in the understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 H. Bakke , M. Carlsson , L. Rouppe van der Voort , B. V. Gudiksen , V. Polito , P. Testa , B. De Pontieu

The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by the particle gyrating in an external magnetic field is considered. Particular attention is paid to the low-frequency case, when the frequencies of incident radiation are much less than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

We present a complete solution to the cyclotron-synchrotron radiation due to an isotropic distribution of electrons moving in a magnetic field. We make no approximations in the calculations other than artificially broadening the harmonics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Rohan Mahadevan , Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi