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Kappa distributions are widely used in space plasma physics to model velocity distribution functions with heavy tails. Parameter estimation in these distributions is, however, complicated by the fact that the kappa distribution does not…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-25 Leonardo Herrera-Fuenzalida , Sergio Davis

The non-Maxwellian $\kappa$-distributions have been detected in the solar transition region and flares. These distributions are characterized by a high-energy tail and a near-Maxwellian core and are known to have significant impact on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Elena Dzifčáková , Jaroslav Dudík , Pavel Kotrč , František Fárník , Alena Zemanová

Thermodynamic characteristics of the radiation of condensed combustion products presented in the form of agglomerates of metal-oxide nanoparticles demonstrate deviations from the classical Planck's law. We propose to interpret these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 G. S. Dragan , V. V. Kutarov , A. Y. Bekshaev

The pseudo-potential method is applied to derive diverse propagating electron hole structures, in a nonthermal or $\kappa$ particle distribution function background. The associated distribution function Ansatz reproduces the Schamel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Fernando Haas

The nonextensive statistical ensembles are revisited for the complex systems with long-range interactions and long-range correlations. An approximation, the value of nonextensive parameter (1-q) is assumed to be very tiny, is adopted for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yahui Zheng , Jiulin Du , Linxia Liu , Huijun Kong

It is argued that the factorization of compound probability over subsystems is a consequence of the existence of thermodynamic equilibrium in the composite system having Tsallis entropy. So it should be respected by all exact calculations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 Qiuping A. Wang , Alain Le Mehaute

A study of the effects of non-extensivity on the modelling of atomic physics in hot dense plasmas is proposed within Tsallis' statistics. The electronic structure of the plasma is calculated through an average-atom model based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jean-Christophe Pain , Denis Teychenné , Franck Gilleron

Observations in space plasmas reveal particle velocity distributions out of thermal equilibrium, with anisotropies (e.g., parallel drifts or/and different temperatures, $T_\parallel$ - parallel and $T_\perp$ - perpendicular, with respect to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Klaus Scherer , Edin Husidic , Marian Lazar , Horst Fichtner

Velocity distribution functions (VDFs) that exhibit a power-law dependence on the high-energy tail have been the subject of intense research by the plasma physics community. Such functions, known as kappa or superthermal distributions, have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Rudi Gaelzer , Luiz Fernando Ziebell

In the literature different so-called $\kappa$-distribution functions are discussed to fit and model the velocity (or energy) distributions of solar wind species, pickup ions or magnetospheric particles. Here we introduce a generalized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-09 Klaus Scherer , Edin Husidic , Marian Lazar , Horst Fichtner

We study the nonextensive parameter for the rotating astrophysical systems with power-law distributions, including both the rotating self-gravitating system and the rotating space plasma. We extend the equation of nonextensive parameter to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-10 Haining Yu , Jiulin Du

This paper presents the misestimation of temperature when observations from a kappa distributed plasma are analyzed as a Maxwellian. One common method to calculate the space plasma parameters is by fitting the observed distributions using…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Georgios Nicolaou , George Livadiotis

This paper studies sufficient conditions for deriving the kappa distribution in polytropic plasmas by an improved method compared with the previous work [R. Guo, Phys. Plasmas \textbf{27}, 122104 (2020)]. We find that the polytropic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Ran Guo

The dispersion relation of longitudinal electrostatic oscillations in a relativistic plasma is studied in the context of the nonextensive statistics formalism proposed by Tsallis [C. Tsallis, J. Stat. Phys. {\bf 52}, 479 (1988)], where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Munoz

The Tsallis entropy, which is a generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy, plays a central role in nonextensive statistical mechanics of complex systems. A lot of efforts have recently been made on establishing a dynamical foundation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sumiyoshi Abe , Yutaka Nakada

The kappa-deformed statistics has been studied in many papers. It is naturally important question for us to ask what should the kappa parameter stand for and under what physical situation should the kappa-deformed statistics be suitable for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-10 Lina Guo , Jiulin Du

In this paper we give an interpretation of Tsallis' nonextensive statistical mechanics based upon the information-theoretic point of view of Luzzi et al. [cond-mat/0306217; cond-mat/0306247; cond-mat/0307325], suggesting Tsallis' entropy to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Sattin

The nonextensive statistics based on Tsallis entropy have been so far used for the systems composed of subsystems having same $q$. The applicability of this statistics to the systems with different $q$'s is still a matter of investigation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiuping A. Wang

For collisionless (or collision-poor) plasma populations which are well described by the $\kappa$-distribution functions (also known as the Kappa or Lorentzian power-laws) a macroscopic interpretation has remained largely questionable,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Klaus Scherer , Marian Lazar , Edin Husidic , Horst Fichtner

An extension of Maxwell's original prescription for an ideal gas is adopted to derive a broad class of Kappa-type velocity distributions, encompassing both fat and short-tailed forms. Within this general framework, a physically consistent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 J. A. S. Lima , M. H. Benetti