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We analyze the effect of the Sun's gravitational field on a flow of cold dark matter (CDM) through the solar system in the limit where the velocity dispersion of the flow vanishes. The exact density and velocity distributions are derived in…

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An intense, short laser pulse incident on a transparent dielectric can excite electrons from valence to the conduction band. As these electrons undergo scattering, both from phonons and ions, they emit bremsstrahlung radiation. Here we…

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Using data collected by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission in October 2021, we investigated coronal regions of the Sun by analyzing the Doppler spectral width of radio signals to estimate solar wind velocity. A simplified equation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Bijoy K. Dai

The scattering of light dark matter off thermal electrons inside the Sun produces a "fast" sub-component of the dark matter flux that may be detectable in underground experiments. We update and extend previous work by analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-27 Haipeng An , Haoming Nie , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

Electron velocity distribution functions in the solar wind according to standard models consist of 4 components, of which 3 are symmetric - the core, the halo, and the superhalo, and one is magnetic field-aligned, beam-like population,…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 L. Bercic , M. Maksimovic , S. Landi , L. Matteini

The solar wind is typically categorized as fast and slow based on the measured speed ($v_\mathrm{sw}$). The separation between these two regimes is often set between 400 and 600 km/s without a rigorous definition. Observations of the solar…

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The next generation of dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments and neutrino telescopes will probe large swaths of dark matter parameter space. In order to interpret the signals in these experiments, it is necessary to have good models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-30 Annika H. G. Peter

Light millicharged particles can be copiously produced from meson decays in cosmic ray collisions with the atmosphere, leading to detectable signals in large underground neutrino detectors. In this paper we study a new channel for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Mingxuan Du , Rundong Fang , Zuowei Liu

Aims. The interaction of two isotropic stellar winds is studied in order to calculate the free-free emission from the wind collision region. The effects of the binary separation and the wind momentum ratio on the emission from the wind-wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Montes , R. F. Gonzalez , J. Canto , M. A. Perez-Torres , A. Alberdi

We develop a model for the strahl population in the solar wind -- a narrow, low-density and high-energy electron beam centered on the magnetic field direction. Our model is based on the solution of the electron drift-kinetic equation at…

This paper investigates the onset time of Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events with numerical simulations, and analyses the accuracy of the Velocity Dispersion Analysis (VDA) method. Using a 3-dimensional focused transport model, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. Wang , G. Qin

The emission of direct (hard and thermal) photons from nucleon-nucleon Bremsstrahlung in heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies is analyzed. We utilize a photon emission rate based on a quantum-field-theoretical model together with nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Thomas Onyango , Ralf Rapp

Strong explosion of a compact star surrounded by a thick stellar wind drives a fast ($>0.1c$) radiation mediated shock (RMS) that propagates in the wind, and ultimately breaks out gradually once photons start escaping from the shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Hirotaka Ito , Amir Levinson , Ehud Nakar

We investigate the photon emission from the electrosphere of a quark star. It is shown that at temperatures T\sim 0.1-1 MeV the dominating mechanism is the bremsstrahlung due to bending of electron trajectories in the mean Coulomb field of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-02 B. G. Zakharov

A detection technique for ultra-high energy cosmic rays, complementary to the fluorescence technique, would be the use of the molecular Bremsstrahlung radiation emitted by low-energy ionization electrons left after the passage of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-04 I. Al Samarai , C. Berat , O. Deligny , A. Letessier-Selvon , F. Montanet , M. Settimo , P. Stassi

The modeling of UV and optical spectra emitted from the symbiotic system AG Draconis, adopting collision of the winds, predicts soft X-ray bremsstrahlung from nebulae downstream of the reverse shock with velocities > 150 km/s and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Marcella Contini , Rodolfo Angeloni

We resolve discrepancies in previous analyses of the flow of collisionless dark matter particles in the Sun's gravitational field. We determine the phase-space distribution of the flow both numerically, tracing particle trajectories back in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Moqbil S. Alenazi , Paolo Gondolo

We use high spatial resolution observations and numerical simulations to study the velocity distribution of solar photospheric magnetic bright points. The observations were obtained with the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere…

By implementing the bremsstrahlung with Monte Carlo algorithm into the particle-in-cell code, the bremsstrahlung and nonlinear Compton scattering can be studied simultaneously in comparison way in the laser plasma interactions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Feng Wan , Chong Lv , Moran Jia , Haibo Sang , Baisong Xie

Properties of the solar wind are discussed and applied to the effect of the wind on motion of bodies in the Solar System. The velocity density function for the solar wind constituents is given by the $\kappa-$distribution. The relevant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jozef Klačka