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The heating of electrons in collisionless magnetic reconnection is explored in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations with non-zero guide fields so that electrons remain magnetized. In this regime electric fields parallel to B accelerate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. T. Dahlin , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak

Based on the drift-kinetic theory, we develop a model for particle acceleration and transport in solar flares. The model describes the evolution of the particle distribution function by means of a numerical simulation of the drift-kinetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Minoshima , S. Masuda , Y. Miyoshi

The important characteristic of turbulent reconnection is that it combines large scale magnetic disturbances $(\delta B/B \sim 1)$ with randomly distributed Unstable Current Sheets (UCSs). Many well known non linear MHD structures (strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Theophilos Pisokas , Loukas Vlahos , Heinz Isliker

This paper extends our earlier work on the acceleration of low-energy electrons by plasma turbulence to include the effects of finite temperature of the plasma. We consider the resonant interaction of thermal electrons with the whole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Julia Pryadko , Vahe Petrosian

Solar flares release magnetic energy through reconnection, accelerating electrons into nonthermal velocity distributions, including crescent-shaped electron populations. These energetic electron distributions are crucial in driving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Mehdi Yousefzadeh

Cool, dense material is frequently observed to permeate the hot, tenuous solar corona in the form of prominences, spicules and coronal rain. Both the cool material and surrounding corona exist at temperatures that are effectively thermally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 B. Snow , A. Hillier

Suprathermal tails are a common feature of solar wind electron velocity distributions, and are expected in the solar corona. From the corona, suprathermal electrons can propagate through the steep temperature gradient of the transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-13 C. Vocks , E. Dzifcakova , G. Mann

We study two modifications of the collisional thick-target model (CTTM) based on the global and local re-acceleration of non-thermal electrons by static and stochastic electric fields during their transport from the coronal acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 M. Varady , M. Karlický , Z. Moravec , J. Kasparova

In this review, we examine particle transport in strongly turbulent three-dimensional (3D) magnetized plasmas, characterized by intense (large-amplitude) magnetic field fluctuations. Such environments naturally give rise to a network of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Heinz Isliker , Loukas Vlahos

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the effect of turbulent background density fluctuations on flare-accelerated electron transport in the solar corona. Using the quasi-linear approximation, we numerically simulated the propagation of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. G. Hannah , E. P. Kontar , H. A. S. Reid

Threads are the main constituents of prominences and are subjected to oscillations that might be interpreted as MHD waves. Moreover, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) has been reported in prominences. Both waves and KHI may affect the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 Sergio Díaz-Suárez , Roberto Soler

The heating of the solar corona and solar wind, through suprathermal particles and kinetic Alfv\'en waves within the 0 - 10 $R_{\rm Sun}$ range, has been a subject of great interest for many decades. This study investigates the acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 S. Ayaz , Gary P. Zank , Imran A. Khan , G. Li , Yeimy J. Rivera

The preacceleration of electrons through reflection and shock drift acceleration (SDA) is essential for the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of nonthermal electrons in collisionless shocks. Previous studies suggested that, in weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Sunjung Kim , Ji-Hoon Ha , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang

We use 2D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to study the effect of the saturated whistler instability on the viscous heating and nonthermal acceleration of electrons in a shearing, collisionless plasma with a growing magnetic field,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Mario Riquelme , Alvaro Osorio , Eliot Quataert

We analyze particle acceleration in explosive reconnection events in magnetically dominated proton-electron plasmas. Reconnection is driven by large-scale magnetic stresses in interacting current-carrying flux tubes. Our model relies on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-07 B. Ripperda , O. Porth , C. Xia , R. Keppens

The generation and evolution of entanglement in quantum many-body systems is an active area of research that spans multiple fields, from quantum information science to the simulation of quantum many-body systems encountered in condensed…

We analyse transverse oscillations of a coronal loop excited by continuous monoperiodic motions of the loop footpoint at different frequencies in the presence of gravity. Using the MPI-AMRVAC code, we perform three-dimensional numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Andrey Afanasyev , Konstantinos Karampelas , Tom Van Doorsselaere

We propose a nonlinear self-consistent model of the turbulent non-resonant particle acceleration in solar flares. We simulate temporal evolution of the spectra of charged particles accelerated by strong long-wavelength MHD turbulence taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Bykov , G. D. Fleishman

The present work investigates electron transport and heating mechanisms using an (r, z) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of a typical rf-driven axisymmetric magnetron discharge with a conducting target. It is shown that for the considered…

Relativistic magnetized jets from active galaxies are among the most powerful cosmic accelerators, but their particle acceleration mechanisms remain a mystery. We present a new acceleration mechanism associated with the development of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 E. Paulo Alves , Jonathan Zrake , Frederico Fiuza
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