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We present radio and X-ray observations of an impulsive solar flare that was moderately intense in microwaves, yet showed very meager EUV and X-ray emission. The flare occurred on 2001 Oct 24 and was well-observed at radio wavelengths by…

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The heating of ions and electrons due to turbulent dissipation plays a crucial role in the thermodynamics of the solar wind and other plasma environments. Using magnetic field and thermal plasma observations from the first two perihelia of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Niranjana Shankarappa , Kristopher G. Klein , Mihailo M Martinović

Toroidal Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) excited in purely ohmically heated plasmas without any auxiliary heating have been identified for the first time in the SUNIST spherical tokamak. The TAE modes are observed during minor disruptions and have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Yangqing Liu , Yi Tan , Zhe Gao , Yuhong Xu , Youjun Hu , Song Chai , Yanzheng Jiang , Rui Ke , Heng Zhong , Wenhao Wang

The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray radiation emitted during solar flares has been shown to significantly increase the electron density of the Earth's ionosphere. During flares, quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in X-ray flux originating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Aisling N. O'Hare , Susanna Bekker , Laura A. Hayes , Ryan O. Milligan

In the present work we use a deep-exposure spectrum taken by the SUMER spectrometer in a polar coronal hole in 1996 to measure the ion temperatures of a large number of ions at many different heights above the limb between 0.03 and 0.17…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Enrico Landi , Steven R. Cranmer

As it is well known most of charge density wave (CDW) and spin density wave (SDW) exhibit the nonlinear transport with well defined threshold electric field E_T. Here we study theoretically the threshold electric field of unconventional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Balázs Dóra , Attila Virosztek , Kazumi Maki

The underlying physics that generates the excitations in the global low-frequency, < 5.3 mHz, solar acoustic power spectrum is a well known process that is attributed to solar convection; However, a definitive explanation as to what causes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Richardson , F. Hill , K. G. Stassun

"EIT waves" are a globally propagating wavelike phenomenon. They were often interpreted as a fast-mode magnetoacoustic wave in the corona, despite various discrepancies between the fast-mode wave model and observations. To reconcile these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-18 P. F. Chen , Y. Wu

The nature of turbulence at sub-electron scales has remained an open question, central to understanding how electrons are heated in the solar wind. This is primarily because spacecraft measurements have been limited to magnetic field…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Shiladittya Mondal , Christopher H. K. Chen , Davide Manzini

Understanding the heating of electrons to quasi-thermal energies at collisionless shocks has broad implications for plasma astrophysics. It directly impacts the interpretation of X-ray spectra from shocks, is important for understanding how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cara E. Rakowski , J. Martin Laming , Parviz Ghavamian

Absorbtion of Alfven waves is considered to be the main mechanism of heating in the solar corona. It is concluded that the sharp increase of the plasma temperature by two orders of magnitude is related to a self-induced opacity with respect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. M. Mishonov , M. V. Stoev , Y. G. Maneva

First results from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission have revealed ubiquitous coherent ion-scale waves in the inner heliosphere, which are signatures of kinetic wave-particle interactions and fluid-scale instabilities. However, initial…

We study selected properties of Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events as inferred from their associated radio emissions. We used a catalogue of 115 SEP events that consists of entries of proton intensity enhancements at one AU, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 A. Kouloumvakos , A. Nindos , E. Valtonen , C. E. Alissandrakis , O. Malandraki , P. Tsitsipis , A. Kontogeorgos , X. Moussas , A. Hillaris

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…

The theory of low-frequency (in comparison with the ion cyclotron frequency), long wavelength, electrostatic drift ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) is studied in a nonuniform rotating magnetoplasma with two temperature superthermal electrons. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 A. Abdikian , M. Eghbali , A. P. Misra

We investigate the acceleration of charged particles (both electrons and protons) at collisionless shocks predicted to exist in the vicinity of solar flares. The existence of standing termination shocks has been examined by flare models and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Fan Guo , Joe Giacalone

The nature of the plasma wave modes around the ion kinetic scales in highly Alfv\'enic slow solar wind turbulence is investigated using data from the NASA's Parker Solar Probe taken in the inner heliosphere, at 0.18 Astronomical Unit (AU)…

Waves are thought to play a significant role in the heating of the solar atmosphere and the acceleration of the wind. Among the many types of waves observed in the Sun, the so-called p-modes with a 3 mHz frequency peak dominate the lower…

The presence of flare related acoustic emission (sunquakes) in some flares represents a severe challenge to our current understanding of flare energy transport processes. We present a comparison of new spectral observations from Hinode's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Sarah A. Matthews , Louise K. Harra , Sergei Zharkov , Lucie M. Green

An experimental study to investigate the effect of an external magnetic field on the propagation of ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) has been carried out in hydrogen plasma containing two-temperature electrons and dust grains. A low-pressure hot…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 K. Deka , R. Paul , G. Sharma , N. Das , S. Adhikari , R. Moulick , S. S. Kausik , B. K. Saikia , O. H. Chin , C. S. Wong