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Electron cyclotron waves (whistlers), are commonly observed in plasmas near Earth and the solar wind. In the presence of nonlinear mirror modes, bursts of whistlers, usually called lion roars, have been observed within low magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Francisco Ley , Ellen G. Zweibel , Drake Miller , Mario Riquelme

The discovery of large-amplitude narrowband whistler-mode waves at frequencies of tenths of the electron cyclotron frequency in large numbers both inside ~.3 AU and at ~1 AU provides an answer to longstanding questions about scattering and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Cynthia Cattell , Tien Vo

The Van Allen radiation belts contain relativistic electrons trapped by Earth's magnetic field, posing serious risks to spacecraft. Chorus waves are known to accelerate these electrons via resonant interactions, but these interactions are…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Xin Tao , Zeyu An , Fulvio Zonca , Liu Chen , Jacob Bortnik

Observational aspects of solar flares relevant to the acceleration process of electrons and protons are reviewed and it is shown that most of these observations can be explained by the interaction with flare plasma of a power law energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahe Petrosian

Previously, a series of tidally-excited oscillations were discovered in the eccentric eclipsing binary KIC 3230227. The pulsation amplitudes and phases suggest the observed oscillations are prograde quadruple modes. In this paper, we refine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Zhao Guo

Chiral active matter is predicted to exhibit odd elasticity, with nontraditional elastic response arising from a combination of chirality, being out of equilibrium, and the presence of nonreciprocal interactions. One of the resulting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Sang Hyun Choi , Zhi-Feng Huang , Nigel Goldenfeld

Observations of plasma waves by the Fields Suite and of electrons by the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons Investigation (SWEAP) on Parker Solar Probe provide strong evidence for pitch angle scattering of strahl-energy electrons by…

A novel 2D nonlinear dynamical paradigm is constructed to interpret the fast and repetitive frequency chirping and amplitude oscillation of Alfv\'en eigenmodes excited by energetic particles in fusion plasmas as observed in global…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Junyi Cheng , Wenlu Zhang , Zhihong Lin , Jian Bao , Chao Dong , Jintao Cao , Ding Li

Resonances with electromagnetic whistler-mode waves are the primary driver for the formation and dynamics of energetic electron fluxes in various space plasma systems, including shock waves and planetary radiation belts. The basic and most…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 A. V. Artemyev , A. I. Neishtadt , A. A. Vasiliev , D. Mourenas

Chirping Alfv\'{e}n modes are considered as potentially harmful in burning Tokamak plasmas. In this paper, the nonlinear evolution of a single-toroidal-number chirping mode is analysed by numerical particle simulation. This analysis can be…

The non-ducted propagation characteristics of the VLF waves in the inner magnetosphere were studied with respect to their frequency, source localization, and initial wave normal angle, between the wave-normal and the background magnetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 H. Breuillard , D. Mendzhul , O. Agapitov

Spectral analyses of energetic particle (EP) driven bursts of MHD fluctuations in magnetically confined plasmas often exhibit multiple simultaneous chirps. While the superposition of oscillations at multiple frequencies necessarily causes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Andreas Bierwage , Roscoe B. White , Vinícius N. Duarte

Time-dependent cascades of electron-positron pairs are thought to be the main source of plasma in pulsar magnetospheres and a primary ingredient to explain the nature of pulsar radio emission, a longstanding open problem in high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Simon Iteanu , Paolo Tortone , Luis O. Silva

Effects of increasing whistler amplitude and propagation angle are studied through a variational test particle simulation and calculations of the resonance width. While high amplitude and oblique whistlers in typical 1 AU solar wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-25 Tien Vo , Robert Lysak , Cynthia Cattell

We have studied the nonlinear dynamics of whistler waves in magnetized plasmas. Since plasmas and beam-plasma systems considered here are assumed to be weakly collisional, the point of reference for the analysis performed in the present…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Salvatore De Martino , Mariarosaria Falanga , Stephan I. Tzenov

Plasma emission (PE), i.e., electromagnetic radiation at the plasma frequency and its second harmonic, is a general process occurring in both astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. The prevailing theory presents a multi-stage process…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Sulan Ni , Yao Chen , Chuanyang Li , Jicheng Sun , Hao Ning , Zilong Zhang

In this study, the first observation of high-frequency instabilities driven by runaway electrons has been reported in the EXL-50 spherical torus using a high-frequency magnetic pickup coil. The central frequency of these instabilities is…

Drift-pair bursts are an unusual type of solar low-frequency radio emission, which appear in the dynamic spectra as two parallel drifting bright stripes separated in time. Recent imaging spectroscopy observations allowed for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Eduard P. Kontar , Galina Motorina

In the literature, discussion continues about the nature of the zebra structure (ZS) in type IV radio bursts, and understanding even the most extended mechanism associated with double plasma resonance has been improved in series of works.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 G. P. Chernov

Electron acoustic waves (EAWs), as well as electron-acoustic solitary structures, play a crucial role in thermalization and acceleration of electron populations in Earth's magnetosphere. These waves are often observed in association with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Donglai Ma , Xin An , Anton Artemyev , Jacob Bortnik , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Xiao-Jia Zhang