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Magnetic reconnection in solar flares can efficiently generate non-thermal electron beams. The energetic electrons can, in turn, cause radio waves through microscopic plasma instabilities as they propagate through the ambient plasma along…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Xin Yao , Patricio Muñoz , Jörg Büchner , Jan Benáček , Siming Liu , Xiaowei Zhou

Type III radio bursts are radio emissions associated with solar flares. They are considered to be caused by electron beams traveling from the solar corona to the solar wind. Magnetic reconnection is a possible accelerator of electron beams…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Xin Yao , Patricio A. Muñoz , Jörg Büchner , Xiaowei Zhou , Siming Liu

Magnetic reconnection can convert magnetic energy into kinetic energy of non-thermal electron beams. Those accelerated electrons can, in turn, cause radio emission in astrophysical plasma environments such as solar flares via…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Xin Yao , Patricio Alejandro Muñoz , Jörg Büchner

A complete understanding of solar radio bursts requires developing numerical techniques which can connect large-scale activities with kinetic plasma processes. As a starting point, this study presents a numerical scheme combining three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 M. Yousefzadeh , H. Ning , Y. Chen

The electron-cyclotron maser instability (ECMI) is responsible for generation of the planetary auroral radio emissions. Most likely, the same mechanism produces radio bursts from ultracool dwarfs. We investigate amplification of plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Alexey A. Kuznetsov

A self-consistent particle-in-cell simulation study is performed to investigate the effect of driving frequency on the electric field non-linearity, electron heating mechanism and electron energy distribution function (EEDF) in a low…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sarveshwar Sharma , Nishant Sirse , Animesh Kuley , Miles M Turner

Fast electron beams (FEBs) are common products of solar active phenomena. Solar radio bursts are an important diagnostic tool in the understanding of FEBs as well as the solar plasma environment in which they are propagating along solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 J. F. Tang , D. J. Wu , L. Chen , G. Q. Zhao , C. M. Tan

According to the standard scenario of plasma emission, escaping radiations are generated by the nonlinear development of the kinetic bump-on-tail instability driven by a single beam of energetic electrons interacting with plasmas. Here we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yao Chen , Zilong Zhang , Sulan Ni , Hao Ning , Chuanyang Li , Yaokun Li

Solar flares effectively accelerate particles to non-thermal energies. These accelerated electrons are responsible for energy transport and subsequent emissions in HXR, radio, and UV/EUV radiation. Due to the steeply decreasing electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yingjie Luo , Eduard P. Kontar , Debesh Bhattacharjee

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

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

Solar flare accelerated electrons escaping into the interplanetary space and seen as type III solar radio bursts are often detected near the Earth. Using numerical simulations we consider the evolution of energetic electron spectrum in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

We investigate the effects of acceleration during non-linear electron-beam relaxation in magnetized plasma in the case of electron transport in solar flares. The evolution of electron distribution functions is computed using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar

Driven by recent RHESSI observations of confined loop-top hard X-ray sources in solar flares, we consider stochastic acceleration of electrons in the presence of Coulomb collisions. If electron escape from the acceleration region can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nicolas H. Bian , A. Gordon Emslie , Duncan J. Stackhouse , Eduard P. Kontar

Electromagnetic radiation at higher harmonics of the plasma frequency ($\omega \sim n\omega_{pe}, n > 2$) has been occasionally observed in type II and type III solar radio bursts, yet the underlying mechanism remains undetermined. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Chuanyang Li , Yao Chen , Zilong Zhang , Hao Ning , TangMu Li

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

Previous studies on the beam-driven plasma emission process were done mainly for unmagnetized plasmas. Here we present fully-kinetic electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations to investigate such process in weakly-magnetized plasmas of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yao Chen , Zilong Zhang , Sulan Ni , Chuanyang Li , Hao Ning , Xiangliang Kong

We report multi-wavelength observations of four solar flares on 2014 July 07. We firstly select these flares according to the soft X-ray (SXR) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emissions recorded by the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Dong Li , Alexander Warmuth , Lei Lu , Zongjun Ning

Most theoretical investigations of particle acceleration during solar flares cannot be applied to observations for detailed study of the time evolution. We propose a phenomenological model for turbulence evolution and stochastic particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-10 Siming Liu , Lyndsay Fletcher

The impulsive phase of a solar flare is known to generate strong turbulence and to transfer magnetic energy into accelerated electrons. Recognizing the importance of angular diffusion on the dynamics of the accelerated electrons, we extend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 A. Gordon Emslie , Eduard P. Kontar
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