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Of particular interest for radio and hard X-ray diagnostics of accelerated electrons during solar flares is the understanding of the basic non-linear mechanisms regulating the relaxation of electron beams propagating in turbulent plasmas.…

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Electrons accelerated by solar flares and observed as type III solar radio bursts are not only a crucial diagnostic tool for understanding electron transport in the inner heliosphere but also a possible early indication of potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Eduard P. Kontar , Francesco Azzollini , Olena Lyubchyk

A new experimental platform based on laser-plasma interaction is proposed to explore the fundamental processes of wave coupling at the origin of interplanetary radio emissions. It is applied to the study of electromagnetic (EM) emission at…

To analyze the joint development of two-stream and filamentation kinetic instabilities in a plasma with a particle beam, a quasilinear approach has been developed that accounts for the integral nonlinear interaction of modes arising from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 A. A. Kuznetsov , Vl. V. Kocharovsky

Plasma emission (PE), i.e., electromagnetic radiation at the plasma frequency and its second harmonic, is a general process occurring in both astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. The prevailing theory presents a multi-stage process…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Sulan Ni , Yao Chen , Chuanyang Li , Jicheng Sun , Hao Ning , Zilong Zhang

Large amplitude Alfv\'en waves tend to be unstable to parametric instabilities which result in a decay process of the initial wave into different daughter waves depending upon the amplitude of the fluctuations and the plasma beta. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 C. A. González , A. Tenerani , M. Velli , P. Hellinger

The three-dimensional instability of two coupled electromagnetic waves in an unmagnetized plasma is investigated theoretically and numerically. In the regime of two-plasmon decay, where one pump wave frequency is approximately twice the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Stenflo , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund

The usual approach on electrostatic wave decay process for a weak beam-plasma system considers two different wave modes interplaying, the Langmuir and ion-sound mode. In the present paper, a single-mode approach is shown to be feasible for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Guilherme T. Irumé , Joel Pavan , Rudi Gaelzer

During Type III solar radio bursts, electromagnetic waves are radiated at plasma frequency $\omega_p$ and its harmonics by electrostatic wave turbulence generated by electron beams ejected by Sun in randomly inhomogeneous solar wind and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Catherine Krafft , Alexandr Volokitin , Francisco Javier Polanco-Rodríguez , Philippe Savoini

Solar flare accelerated electron beams propagating away from the Sun can interact with the turbulent interplanetary media, producing plasma waves and type III radio emission. These electron beams are detected near the Earth with a double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 H. A. S. Reid , E. P. Kontar

The propagation of Langmuir waves in plasmas is known to be sensitive to density fluctuations. Such fluctuations may lead to the coexistence of wave pairs that have almost opposite wave-numbers in the vicinity of their reflection points.…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-07-25 V. V. Krasnoselskikh , T. Dudok de Wit , S. D. Bale

Aims: Emission of radio waves from plasmas through plasma emission with fundamental and harmonic frequencies is a familiar process known from solar type II radio bursts. Current models assume the existence of counterstreaming electron beam…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Urs Ganse , Patrick Kilian , Felix Spanier , Rami Vainio

Magnetized high-energy-density plasmas can often have strong electromagnetic fluctuations whose correlation scale is smaller than the electron Larmor radius. Radiation from the electrons in such plasmas, which markedly differs from both…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Brett D. Keenan , Mikhail V. Medvedev

A simulation study is performed to investigate the dynamics of coupled Langmuir waves (LWs) and ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) in an unmagnetized plasma. The effects of dispersion due to charge separation and the density nonlinearity associated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 S. Banerjee , A. P. Misra , P. K. Shukla , L. Rondoni

Wave dispersion in a pulsar plasma (a 1D, strongly magnetized, pair plasma streaming highly relativistically with a large spread in Lorentz factors in its rest frame) is discussed, motivated by interest in beam-driven wave turbulence and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 M. Z. Rafat , D. B. Melrose , A. Mastrano

The propagation of ionic perturbations in a dusty plasma is considered through a three-species kinetic simulation approach, in which the temporal evolution of all three elements i.e. electrons, ions and dust particles are followed based on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 S. M. Hosseini Jenab , F. Spanier

Recent developments in astronomical radio telescopes opened new opportunities in imaging and spectroscopy of solar radio bursts at sub-second timescales. Imaging in narrow frequency bands has revealed temporal variations in the positions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Xingyao Chen , Eduard P. Kontar , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Mykola Gordovskyy , Yihua Yan , Baolin Tan

Type III radio bursts are intense radio emissions triggered by beams of energetic electrons often associated with solar flares. These exciter beams propagate outwards from the Sun along an open magnetic field line in the corona and in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Vratislav Krupar , Eduard P. Kontar , Jan Soucek , Ondrej Santolik , Milan Maksimovic , Oksana Kruparova

Particle transport, acceleration and energisation are phenomena of major importance for both space and laboratory plasmas. Despite years of study, an accurate theoretical description of these effects is still lacking. Validating models with…

Electron beams accelerated in solar flares and escaping from the Sun along open magnetic field lines can trigger intense radio emissions known as type III solar radio bursts. Utilizing observations by Parker Solar Probe (PSP), STEREO-A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Francesco Azzollini , Eduard P. Kontar