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Evanescent waves are central to many technologies such as near-field imaging that beats the diffraction limit and plasmonic devices. Frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) is an experimental method commonly used to study evanescent…

Interpretation of imagery of the solar chromosphere in the widely used \CaIIIR infrared line is hampered by its complex, three-dimensional and non-LTE formation. Forward modelling is required to aid understanding. We use a 3D non-LTE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Leenaarts , M. Carlsson , V. Hansteen , L. Rouppe van der Voort

We show that radiation from complex and inherently random but correlated wave sources can be modelled efficiently by using an approach based on the Wigner distribution function. Our method exploits the connection between correlation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 Gabriele Gradoni , Stephen Creagh , Gregor Tanner , Christopher Smartt , David Thomas

During solar flares plasma is typically heated to very high temperatures, and the resulting redistribution of energy via thermal conduction is a primary mechanism transporting energy throughout the flaring solar atmosphere. The thermal flux…

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Solar observations at sub-THz frequencies detected a new flare spectral component peaking in the THz range, simultaneously with the well known microwaves component, bringing challenging constraints for interpretation. Higher THz frequencies…

The ionosphere contributes time-varying Faraday Rotation (FR) to radio signals passing through it. Correction for the effect of the ionosphere is important for deriving magnetic field information from FR observations of polarized cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-08 J. B. Malins , S. M. White , G. B. Taylor , K. Stovall , J Dowell

Faraday tomography (or rotation measure synthesis) is a procedure to convert linear polarization spectra into the Faraday dispersion function, which provides us with unique information of magneto-ionic media along the line of sight.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-03 Kazunori Akiyama , Takuya Akahori , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Ryosuke Yamaguchi , Shiro Ikeda , Keitaro Takahashi

Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy and its variants are key technologies for visualizing the dynamics of single molecules or organelles in live cells. Yet, truely quantitative TIRF remains problematic. One unknown…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Maia Brunstein , Lopamudra Roy , Martin Oheim

The modulation of the microwave emission intensity from a flaring loop by a standing linear sausage fast magnetoacoustic wave is considered in terms of a straight plasma slab with the perpendicular Epstein profile of the plasma density,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Elena G. Kupriyanova , Tatyana I. Kaltman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov

We have applied an effective numerical scheme for cosmic-ray transport to 3D MHD simulations of jet flow in radio galaxies (see the companion paper by Jones et al. 1999). The marriage of relativistic particle and 3D magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. L. Tregillis , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , Charles Park

Globular clusters are source of gamma-ray radiation. At GeV energies, their emission is attributed to magnetospheric activity of millisecond pulsars residing in the clusters. Inverse Compton scattering of ambient photon fields on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-22 A. Zajczyk , W. Bednarek , B. Rudak

Aims: This work aims to identify the mechanism driving pulsations in hard X-ray (HXR) and microwave emission during solar flares. Here, by using combined HXR and microwave observations from Solar Orbiter/STIX and EOVSA we investigate an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Hannah Collier , Laura A. Hayes , Sijie Yu , Andrea F. Battaglia , William Ashfield , Vanessa Polito , Louise K. Harra , Säm Krucker

The Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) has detected hard X-ray (HXR) and gamma-ray photons from three flares, which according to \stereo occurred in active regions behind the limb of the Sun as delineated by near Earth instruments. For…

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With plasma currents up to 8.7 MA, the SPARC tokamak runs the risk of forming multi-MA beams of relativistic "runaway" electrons (REs) which could damage plasma facing components if unmitigated. The infrared (IR) and visible imaging and…

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The first three-dimensional, nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation of plasma turbulence resolving scales from the ion to electron gyroradius with a realistic mass ratio is presented, where all damping is provided by resolved physical mechanisms.…

Pulsars emit low-frequency radio waves through to high-energy gamma-rays that are generated anywhere from the surface out to the edges of the magnetosphere. Detecting correlated mode changes in the multi-wavelength emission is therefore key…

Thermal emission caused by the thermal motion of the charged particles is commonly broadband, un-polarized, and incoherent, like a melting pot of electromagnetic waves, which makes it unsuitable for infrared applications in many cases…

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LOFAR observations of diffuse interstellar polarization at meter wavelengths reveal intricate polarized intensity structures with an unexpected correlation with neutral HI filaments that could not be reproduced in simulations with low cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Jack Berat , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Andrea Bracco , Patrick Hennebelle , Jeremy Scholtys

We use the cyclotron-maser theory to explain the core emission from the magnetosphere of pulsars. As a kind of direct and efficient maser type of emission, it can give rise to escaping radiation with extremely high brightness temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Chun-yu Ma , Ding-yi Mao , De-yu Wang , Xin-ji Wu

Solar flare hard X-rays (HXRs) are produced as bremsstrahlung when an accelerated population of electrons interacts with the dense chromospheric plasma. HXR observations presented by using the Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager…

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