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First-principle studies of radiative processes aimed at explaining the origin of type II and type III solar radio bursts raise questions on the implications of downshifted electron beam plasma excitations with frequency (slightly) below the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 M. Lazar , R. A. López , S. M. Shaaban , S. Poedts , H. Fichtner

An alternative mechanism is proposed for the generation of harmonics of the electron plasma frequency due to the development of explosive instability in a system of interpenetrating electron and proton flows in the solar atmosphere. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 V. V. Fomichev , S. M. Fainshtein , G. P. Chernov

During Type III solar radio bursts, electromagnetic waves are radiated at plasma frequency $\omega_p$ and its harmonics by electrostatic wave turbulence generated by electron beams ejected by Sun in randomly inhomogeneous solar wind and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Catherine Krafft , Alexandr Volokitin , Francisco Javier Polanco-Rodríguez , Philippe Savoini

Fast radio bursts are mysterious transient sources likely located at cosmological distances. The derived brightness temperatures exceed by many orders of magnitude the self-absorption limit of incoherent synchrotron radiation, implying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Gustavo E. Romero , Maria Victoria del Valle , Florencia L. Vieyro

A new experimental platform based on laser-plasma interaction is proposed to explore the fundamental processes of wave coupling at the origin of interplanetary radio emissions. It is applied to the study of electromagnetic (EM) emission at…

Observations suggest that in normal period radio pulsars, coherent curvature radiation is excited within 10$\%$ of the light cylinder. The coherence is attributed to Langmuir mode instability in a relativistically streaming one-dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-15 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

The polarization ratios $F=|E_\perp|^2/|E|^2$ of beam-generated turbulent Langmuir/$\mathcal{Z}$-mode ($\mathcal{LZ}$) waves and electromagnetic emissions radiated at plasma frequency $\omega_p$ by such sources are studied in weakly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Francisco Javier Polanco-Rodríguez , Catherine Krafft , Philippe Savoini

The emission of fundamental and harmonic frequency radio waves of type II radio bursts are assumed to be products of three-wave interaction processes of beam-excited Langmuir waves. Using a particle-in-cell code, we have performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-16 Urs Ganse , Patrick Kilian , Felix Spanier , Rami Vainio

The self-consistent description of Langmuir wave and ion-sound wave turbulence in the presence of an electron beam is presented for inhomogeneous non-isothermal plasmas. Full numerical solutions of the complete set of kinetic equations for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 E. P. Kontar , H. L. Pecseli

We develop a model of the generation of coherent radio emission in the Crab pulsar, magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Emission is produced by a reconnection-generated beam of particles via a variant of Free Electron Laser (FEL)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 Maxim Lyutikov

Here we experimentally map the dynamics of electron plasma waves in laser solid interaction. We do time resolved measurements of second harmonic and hard X-ray generation from interaction of intense ($10^{16} W cm^{-2}$, 100 fs, 800nm)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arvinder S. Sandhu , G. Ravindra Kumar , S. Sengupta , A. Das , P. K. Kaw

Head-on collision of laser-induced plasma wakefields with differing profiles of electrostatic potential has been recently found to be an efficient mechanism for generating high-power electromagnetic emission at the second harmonic of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 E. Volchok , V. Annenkov , I. Timofeev

Recent developments in astronomical radio telescopes opened new opportunities in imaging and spectroscopy of solar radio bursts at sub-second timescales. Imaging in narrow frequency bands has revealed temporal variations in the positions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Xingyao Chen , Eduard P. Kontar , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Mykola Gordovskyy , Yihua Yan , Baolin Tan

In this paper, electromagnetic emissions produced by a beam-plasma system are investigated using particle-in-cell simulations for the particular case when the typical transverse size of both 100 keV electron beam and produced plasma channel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 V. V. Annenkov , I. V. Timofeev , E. P. Volchok

Previous theoretical considerations of electron beam relaxation in inhomogeneous plasmas have indicated that the effects of the irregular solar wind may account for the poor agreement of homogeneous modelling with the observations.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 J. O. Thurgood , D. Tsiklauri

Solar radio bursts generated through the plasma emission mechanism produce radiation near the local plasma frequency (fundamental emission) and double the plasma frequency (harmonic). While the theoretical ratio of these two frequencies is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Xingyao Chen , Eduard P. Kontar , Daniel L. Clarkson , Nicolina Chrysaphi

This work presents a new theoretical and numerical model describing all possible linear interactions between upper-hybrid wave turbulence and random density fluctuations in a solar wind plasma; not only linear processes as wave reflection,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Catherine Krafft , Alexandr Volokitin

Plasma high harmonics generation from an extremely intense short-pulse laser is explored by including the effects of ion motion, electron-ion collisions and radiation reaction force in the plasma dynamics. The laser radiation pressure…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Suo Tang , Naveen Kumar , Christoph H. Keitel

Non-thermal electron populations are observed throughout the heliosphere. The relaxation of an electron beam is known to produce Langmuir waves which, in turn, may substantially modify the electron distribution function. As the Langmuir…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Heather Ratcliffe , Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar

High-mass gamma-ray binaries are powerful nonthermal galactic sources, some of them hosting a pulsar whose relativistic wind interacts with a likely inhomogeneous stellar wind. So far, modeling these sources including stellar wind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 E. Kefala , V. Bosch-Ramon