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$\textit{AIMS.}$ To investigate processes associated with generation of type-III radiation. $\textit{METHODS.}$ Measure the amplitudes and phase velocities of Parker Solar Probe observed electric fields, magnetic fields, and plasma density…

We study collective processes for an electron beam propagating through a background plasma using simulations and analytical theory. A new regime where the instability of a Langmuir wave packet can grow locally much faster than ion frequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Haomin Sun , Jian Chen , Igor D. Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Dmytro Sydorenko

The electrostatic decay enables energy transfer from a finite amplitude Langmuir to a backscattered daughter Langmuir wave and ion acoustic density fluctuations. This mechanism is thought to be a first step for the generation of type III…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 P. Henri , F. Califano , C. Briand , A. Mangeney

Type-III-burst radio signals can be mimicked in the laboratory via laser-plasma interaction. Instead of an electron beam generating Langmuir waves (LW) in the interplanetary medium, the LWs are created by a laser interacting with a…

1.5D PIC, relativistic, fully electromagnetic (EM) simulations are used to model EM wave emission generation in the context of solar type III radio bursts. The model studies generation of EM waves by a super-thermal, hot beam of electrons…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-10 D. Tsiklauri

Electromagnetic fundamental and harmonic emission is ubiquitously observed throughout the heliosphere, and in particular it is commonly associated with the occurrence of Type II and III solar radio bursts. Classical analytic calculations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Fabio Bacchini , Alexander A. Philippov

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

Previous theoretical considerations of electron beam relaxation in inhomogeneous plasmas have indicated that the effects of the irregular solar wind may account for the poor agreement of homogeneous modelling with the observations.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 J. O. Thurgood , D. Tsiklauri

Recent observation of large amplitude Langmuir waveforms during a Type III event in the solar wind have been interpreted as the signature of the electrostatic decay of beam-driven Langmuir waves. This mechanism is thought to be a first step…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-23 Pierre Henri , Francesco Califano , Carine Briand , André Mangeney

First-principle studies of radiative processes aimed at explaining the origin of type II and type III solar radio bursts raise questions on the implications of downshifted electron beam plasma excitations with frequency (slightly) below the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 M. Lazar , R. A. López , S. M. Shaaban , S. Poedts , H. Fichtner

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

A theoretical model on the basis of fluid-Maxwell equations for an electron-ion plasma is presented which describes the conversion of current-driven Langmuir waves into type III radiation whereby simultaneously an excitation of whistler…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Konrad Sauer , Kaijun Liu

Dynamics of an spatially limited electron beam in the inhomogeneous solar corona plasma is considered in the framework of weak turbulence theory when the temperature of the beam significantly exceeds that of surrounding plasma. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Eduard P. Kontar

1.5D Particle-In-Cell simulations of a hot, low density electron beam injected into magnetized, maxwellian plasma were used to further explore the alternative non-gyrotropic beam driven electromagnetic emission mechanism, first studied in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-07 Roman Pechhacker , David Tsiklauri

We study the longitudinal stability of beam-plasma systems in the presence of a density inhomogeneity in the background plasma. Previous works have focused on the non-relativistic regime where hydrodynamical models are used to evolve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Mohamad Shalaby , Avery E. Broderick , Philip Chang , Christoph Pfrommer , Ewald Puchwein , Astrid Lamberts

Extensive particle-in-cell simulations of fast electron beams injected in a background magnetised plasma with a decreasing density profile were carried out. These simulations were intended to further shed light on a newly proposed mechanism…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-15 H. Schmitz , D. Tsiklauri

The Sun frequently accelerates near-relativistic electron beams that travel out through the solar corona and interplanetary space. Interacting with their plasma environment, these beams produce type III radio bursts, the brightest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

Electron-beam plasma interaction has long been a topic of great interest. Despite the success of Quasi-Linear (QL) theory and Weak Turbulence (WT) theory, their validities are limited by the requirement of sufficiently dense mode spectrum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Haomin Sun , Jian Chen , Igor D. Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Dmytro Sydorenko

The standard theory of plasma emission is based on kinetic couplings between a single beam of energetic electrons and unmagnetized thermal plasmas, involving multi-step nonlinear wave-particle and wave-wave interactions. The theory has not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Zilong Zhang , Yao Chen , Sulan Ni , Chuanyang Li , Hao Ning , Yaokun Li , Xiangliang Kong

The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that electron current oscillations may generate electromagnetic waves as type III radiation and whistler waves without the involvement of the classical plasma emission via the coalescence of waves. PIC…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Konrad Sauer , Kaijun Liu