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We obtain the gravitational emission from particles scattering via the Yukawa interaction, presenting both classical and approximate quantum results. We also estimate the contribution from the tensor part of the internucleon interaction.…

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Action of solar wind on arbitrarily shaped interplanetary dust particle is investigated. The final relativistically covariant equation of motion of the particle contains both orbital evolution and change of particle's mass. Non-radial solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 J. Klacka , J. Petrzala , P. Pastor , L. Komar

If dark matter (DM) particles are lighter than a few MeV/$c^2$ and can scatter off electrons, their interaction within the solar interior results in a considerable hardening of the spectrum of galactic dark matter received on Earth. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-19 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

The solar-wind energy flux measured near the ecliptic is known to be independent of the solar-wind speed. Using plasma data from Helios, Ulysses, and Wind covering a large range of latitudes and time, we show that the solar-wind energy flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Le Chat , K. Issautier , N. Meyer-Vernet

We use FIRE-2 zoom simulations of Milky Way size disk galaxies to derive easy-to-use relationships between the observed circular speed of the Galaxy at the Solar location, $v_\mathrm{c}$, and dark matter properties of relevance for direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-15 Patrick G. Staudt , James S. Bullock , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , David Kirkby , Andrew Wetzel , Xiaowei Ou

Solar-reflected dark matter (SRDM) consists of dark-matter particles up-scattered and accelerated by energetic electrons in the solar interior, producing a high-velocity tail that can enhance signals in direct-detection experiments,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-27 Haipeng An , Haoming Nie

An accurate assessment of the Sun's angular momentum (AM) loss rate is an independent constraint for models that describe the rotation evolution of Sun-like stars. In-situ measurements of the solar wind taken by Parker Solar Probe (PSP), at…

The photon emissivity from the bremsstrahlung process ee-> ee\gamma occuring in the electrosphere at the bare surface of a strange quark star is calculated. For surface temperatures T<10^9K, the photon flux exceeds that of e+e- pairs that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Prashanth Jaikumar , Charles Gale , Dany Page , Madappa Prakash

Most theoretical descriptions of the production of solar flare bremsstrahlung radiation assume the collision of dilute accelerated particles with a cold, dense target plasma, neglecting interactions of the fast particles with each other.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. K. Galloway , P. Helander , A. L. MacKinnon , J. C. Brown

In collisions between heavy ions at ultra-relativistic energies the participating protons lose energy, which is converted into new particles. As the protons slow down, they emit bremsstrahlung radiation. The yield and angular distribution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-19 Sigurd Nese , Joakim Nystrand

We study the effects of energy transport in the Sun by asymmetric dark matter with momentum and velocity-dependent interactions, with an eye to solving the decade-old Solar Abundance Problem. We study effective theories where the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Aaron C. Vincent , Aldo Serenelli , Pat Scott

We utilize observations from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to study the radial evolution of the solar wind in the inner heliosphere. We analyze electron velocity distribution functions observed by the Solar Wind Electrons, Alphas, and…

We propose a kinetic model describing the formation of the strahl and halo electron populations in the solar wind. We demonstrate that the suprathermal electrons propagating from the sun along the Parker-spiral magnetic field lines are…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Konstantinos Horaites , Stanislav Boldyrev , Mikhail V. Medvedev

We re-examine solar emission of hidden photons gamma' (mass m) caused by kinetic mixing. We calculate the emission rate with thermal field theory methods and with a kinetic equation that includes "flavor oscillations" and photon absorption…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-02 Javier Redondo , Georg Raffelt

Within thunderstorms electrons can gain energies of up to hundred(s) of MeV. These electrons can create X-rays and gamma-rays as Bremsstrahlung when they collide with air molecules. Here we calculate the distribution of angles between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Christoph Köhn , Ute Ebert

In this work, we simulate the evolution of the solar wind along its main sequence lifetime and compute its thermal radio emission. To study the evolution of the solar wind, we use a sample of solar mass stars at different ages. All these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-17 D. Ó Fionnagáin , A. A. Vidotto , P. Petit , C. P. Folsom , S. V. Jeffers , S. C. Marsden , J. Morin , J. -D. do Nascimento

When transiting their host stars, hot Jupiters absorb about 10% of the light in the wings of the stellar Lyman-alpha emission line. The absorption occurs at wavelengths Doppler-shifted from line center by +/- 100 km/s - larger than the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pascal Tremblin , Eugene Chiang

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

The rate of photon absorption in warm dense matter (WDM) induced by free-free electron-ion collisions is derived from Sommerfeld's cross-section for non-relativistic bremsstrahlung emission, making use of detailed balance relations. Warm…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn , Rafael Ramis

We present a model of coherent Bremsstrahlung emission from the compression phase of relativistic heavy ion collisions based on a hydrodynamical description of the collision process. The decceleration of the matter through a shock front,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bertulani , L. Mornas , U. Ornik