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The self-consistent description of Langmuir wave and ion-sound wave turbulence in the presence of an electron beam is presented for inhomogeneous non-isothermal plasmas. Full numerical solutions of the complete set of kinetic equations for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 E. P. Kontar , H. L. Pecseli

We calculate spectra of radiation produced by a relativistic particle in the presence of one-dimensional Langmuir turbulence which might be generated by a streaming instability in the plasma, in particular, in the shock front or at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Gregory D. Fleishman , Igor N. Toptygin

Previous studies on the beam-driven plasma emission process were done mainly for unmagnetized plasmas. Here we present fully-kinetic electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations to investigate such process in weakly-magnetized plasmas of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yao Chen , Zilong Zhang , Sulan Ni , Chuanyang Li , Hao Ning , Xiangliang Kong

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

The quantum hydrodynamic model of the electrostatic waves in the two parallel layers of two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) is developed. It is considered for two regimes: classic regime and quantum regime with the separate spin…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Pavel A. Andreev , T. G. Kiriltseva , Punit Kumar , L. S. Kuz'menkov

The problem of beam propagation in a plasma with small scale and low intensity inhomogeneities is investigated. It is shown that the electron beam propagates in a plasma as a beam-plasma structure and is a source of Langmuir waves. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 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

Solar flare accelerated electrons escaping into the interplanetary space and seen as type III solar radio bursts are often detected near the Earth. Using numerical simulations we consider the evolution of energetic electron spectrum in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

Non-thermal electrons accelerated in the solar corona can produce intense coherent radio emission, known as solar type III radio bursts. This intense radio emission is often observed from hundreds of MHz in the corona down to the tens of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 H. Ratcliffe , E. P. Kontar , H. A. S. Reid

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

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

Non-thermal electron populations are observed throughout the heliosphere. The relaxation of an electron beam is known to produce Langmuir waves which, in turn, may substantially modify the electron distribution function. As the Langmuir…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Heather Ratcliffe , Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar

The polarization ratios $F=|E_\perp|^2/|E|^2$ of beam-generated turbulent Langmuir/$\mathcal{Z}$-mode ($\mathcal{LZ}$) waves and electromagnetic emissions radiated at plasma frequency $\omega_p$ by such sources are studied in weakly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Francisco Javier Polanco-Rodríguez , Catherine Krafft , Philippe Savoini

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

This work presents a new theoretical and numerical model describing all possible linear interactions between upper-hybrid wave turbulence and random density fluctuations in a solar wind plasma; not only linear processes as wave reflection,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Catherine Krafft , Alexandr Volokitin

In this paper, we consider the spectral dependences of transverse electromagnetic waves generated in solar plasma at coalescence of Langmuir waves. It is shown that different spectra of Langmuir waves lead to characteristic types of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 I. V. Kudryavtsev , T. I. Kaltman

$\textit{AIMS.}$ 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…

Anisotropic distributions of charged particles including two-stream distributions give rise to generation of either stochastic electric fields (in the form of Langmuir waves, Buneman instability) or random quasi-static magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory D. Fleishman , Igor N. Toptygin

Microturbulence, i.e. enhanced fluctuations of plasma density, electric and magnetic fields, is of great interest in astrophysical plasmas, but occurs on spatial scales far too small to resolve by remote sensing, e.g., at ~ 1-100 cm in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary , Gregory D. Fleishman

Ions, protons and possibly a small flux of electrons and positrons are accelerated outward from the polar cap of a normal or millisecond pulsar whose rotational spin is antiparallel with its magnetic moment. The Langmuir modes of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 P. B. Jones