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Context. Solar radio bursts originate mainly from high energy electrons accelerated in solar eruptions like solar flares, jets, and coronal mass ejections. A subcategory of solar radio bursts with short time duration may be used as a proxy…

A lightning surge generator generates a high voltage surge with 1.2 microsec. rise time. The generator fed a spark gap of two pointed electrodes at 0.7 to 1.2 m distances. Gap breakdown occurred between 0.1 and 3 microsec. after the maximum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-21 C. V. Nguyen , A. P. J. van Deursen , U. Ebert

A ubiquitous presence of weak energy releases is one of the most promising hypotheses to explain coronal heating, referred to as the nanoflare hypothesis. The accelerated electrons associated with such weak heating events are also expected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Rohit Sharma , Divya Oberoi , Marina Battaglia , Sam Krucker

Lightning discharge is a complicated process with relevant physical scales spanning many orders of magnitude. In an effort to understand the electrodynamics of lightning and connect physical properties of the channel to observed behavior,…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 B. E. Carlson , C. Liang , P. Bitzer , H. Christian

Compact Steep Spectrum, Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum and High Frequency Peak (CSS, GPS, HFP) sources are considered to be young radio sources but the details of their duty cycle are not well understood. In some cases they are thought to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 M. Brienza , R. Morganti , A. Shulevski , L. Godfrey , N. Vilchez

A recent study pointed out that macroscopic dark matter (macros) traversing through the earth's atmosphere can give rise to hot and ionized channels similar to those associated with lightning leaders. The authors of the study investigated…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Vernon Cooray , Gerald Cooray , Marcos Rubinstein , Farhad Rachidi

We explore the connection between the $\gamma$-ray and radio emission in the jet of the blazar 0716$+$714 by using 15, 37, and 230 GHz radio and 0.1$-$200 GeV $\gamma$-ray light curves spanning 10.5 years (2008$-$2019). We find significant…

The pilot system development in metre-scale negative laboratory discharges is studied with ns-fast photography. The systems appear as bipolar structures in the vicinity of the negative high-voltage electrode. They appear as a result of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-13 Pavlo Kochkin , Nikolai Lehtinen , Alexander , P. J. van Deursen , Nikolai Østgaard

Weak heating events are frequent and ubiquitous in solar corona. They derive their energy from the local magnetic field and form a major source of local heating, signatures of which are seen in EUV and X-ray bands. Their radio emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Atul Mohan , Patrick I. McCauley , Alpha Mastrano , Divya Oberoi

The absorption of a high-energy photon from the external cosmic gamma-ray background in the inner neutron star magnetosphere triggers the generation of a secondary electron-positron plasma and gives rise to a lightning - a lengthening and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-02 Ya. N. Istomin , D. N. Sob'yanin

Type III radio bursts are the result of plasma emission from mildly relativistic electron beams propagating from the low solar corona into the heliosphere where they can eventually be detected in situ if they align with the location of a…

We discuss the possibilities of measuring ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos with radio techniques. We review a few of the properties of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers and show how these properties can be explained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Heino Falcke , Peter Gorham

Solar S-bursts are short duration ($<1$ s at decameter wavelengths) radio bursts that have been observed during periods of moderate solar activity, where S stands for short. The frequency drift of S-bursts can reflect the density variation…

The evolution of a solar flare accelerated non-thermal electron population and associated plasma emission is considered in collisional inhomogeneous plasma. Non-thermal electrons collisionally evolve to become unstable and generate Langmuir…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-10 Heather Ratcliffe , Eduard. P. Kontar

Relativistic, charged particles present in extensive air showers lead to a coherent emission of radio pulses which are measured to identify the shower initiating high-energy cosmic rays. Especially during thunderstorms, there are additional…

Numerous X-ray bursts show strong oscillations in their flux at several hundred Hz as revealed by RXTE. Analyzing one such oscillation from the X-ray binary Aql X-1, I find that low energy photons (3.5-5.7 keV) lag high energy photons (>5.7…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric C. Ford

Metric and decametric radio-emissions from the Sun are the only direct source of information about the dynamics of non-thermal electrons in the upper corona. In addition, the combination of spectral and imaging (sizes, shapes, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 M. Gordovskyy , E. P. Kontar , D. L. Clarkson , N. Chrysaphi , P. K. Browning

Relativistic jets generated in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) produce luminous transient events, yet the fundamentals of jet composition and radiation mechanisms remain unclear. One means of identifying a magnetically-dominated outflow would be…

We present lightcurves obtained in X-ray by the XMM-Newton EPIC cameras and simultaneous radio lightcurves obtained with the VLA for five active M-type flare stars. A number of flare events were observed, and by comparing radio with X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. W. Smith , M. Guedel , M. Audard

We present simultaneous dual-frequency radio observations of Cygnus X-3 during a phase of low-level activity. We constrain the minimum variability timescale to be 20 minutes at 43 GHz and 30 minutes at 15 GHz, implying source sizes of 2 to…