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The outer heliosphere is a dynamic region shaped largely by the interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar medium. While interplanetary magnetic field and plasma observations by the Voyager spacecraft have significantly…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 T. K. Kim , N. V. Pogorelov , G. P. Zank , H. A. Elliott , D. J. McComas

We use kinetic hybrid simulations (kinetic ions - fluid electrons) to characterize the fraction of ions that are accelerated to non-thermal energies at non-relativistic collisionless shocks. We investigate the properties of the shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Damiano Caprioli , Ana-Roxana Pop , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We investigate the kinetic properties of a typical fast-mode shock inside an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) observed on 1998 August 6 at 1 AU, including particle distributions and wave analysis with the in situ measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Mingzhe Liu , Ying D. Liu , Zhongwei Yang , L. B. Wilson , Huidong Hu

Recent coordinated observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) and stereoscopic heliospheric imagers (HIs) are significant to continuously track the propagation and evolution of solar eruptions throughout interplanetary space. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-16 Ming Xiong , A. R. Breen , M. M. Bisi , M. J. Owens , R. A. Fallows , G. D. Dorrian , J. A. Davies , P. Thomasson

The iS3D particlization module simulates the emission of hadrons from heavy-ion collisions via Monte-Carlo sampling of the Cooper-Frye formula which converts fluid dynamical information into local phase-space distributions for hadrons. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-23 Mike McNelis , Derek Everett , Ulrich Heinz

Recent observations by Parker Solar Probe (PSP) suggest that protons and heavier ions are accelerated to high energies by magnetic reconnection at the heliospheric current sheet (HCS). By solving the energetic particle transport equation in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Giulia Murtas , Xiaocan Li , Fan Guo

Protons in the solar corona and heliosphere exhibit anisotropic velocity distributions, violation of magnetic moment conservation, and a general lack of thermal equilibrium with the other particle species. There is no agreement about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Steven R. Cranmer

Conventional approaches for simulating steady-state distributions of particles under diffusive and advective transport at high P\'eclet numbers involve solving the diffusion and advection equations in at least two dimensions. Here, we…

Recent in situ observations from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) near perihelia reveal ion beams, temperature anisotropies, and kinetic wave activity. These features are likely linked to solar wind heating and acceleration. During PSP Encounter 17…

We present two-dimensional multi-fluid numerical modelling of the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-12b. The model includes hydrogen chemistry, and self-consistently describes the expansion of the planetary upper atmosphere and mass…

Energetic ions lose their energy in tissue mainly by ionising its molecules. This produces secondary electrons which transport this energy radially away from the ion path. The ranges of most of these electrons do not exceed a few…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Pablo de Vera , Eugene Surdutovich , Nigel J. Mason , Andrey V. Solov'yov

We present three-dimensional, hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations of driven Alfv\'{e}n-wave turbulence of relevance to the collisionless near-Earth solar wind. Special attention is paid to the spectral transition that occurs near the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Lev Arzamasskiy , Matthew W. Kunz , Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Eliot Quataert

Massive protostars launch accretion-powered, magnetically-collimated outflows, which play crucial roles in the dynamics and diagnostics of the star formation process. Here we calculate the shock heating and resulting free-free radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Emiko C. Gardiner , Jonathan C. Tan , Jan E. Staff , Jon P. Ramsey , Yichen Zhang , Kei E. Tanaka

In situ observations of energetic particles at the Earth's bow-shock that are attainable by the satellite missions have long created the opinion that electrons are most efficiently accelerated in a quasi-perpendicular shock geometry.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Adrian Hanusch , Tatyana Liseykina , Mikhail Malkov

The acceleration of solar flare ions during magnetic reconnection is explored via particle-in-cell simulations that self-consistently follow the motions of both protons and $\alpha$ particles. We demonstrate that the dominant ion heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kalman Knizhnik , Marc Swisdak , James F. Drake

The plasma of the lower solar atmosphere consists of mostly neutral particles, whereas the upper solar atmosphere is mostly ionised particles and electrons. A shock that propagates upwards in the solar atmosphere therefore undergoes a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ben Snow , Andrew Hillier

Collisional plasma shocks generated from supersonic flows are an important feature in many astrophysical and laboratory high-energy-density plasmas. Compared to single-ion-species plasma shocks, plasma shock fronts with multiple ion species…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 F. Chu , A. L. LaJoie , B. D. Keenan , L. Webster , S. J. Langendorf , M. A. Gilmore

During the formation of large-scale structures in the universe, weak internal shocks are induced within the hot ICM, while strong accretion shocks arise in the WHIM within filaments, and the warm-cold gas in voids surrounding galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Hyesung Kang

Using test particle simulations we study particle acceleration at highly perpendicular ($\theta_{Bn}\geq 75^\circ$) shocks under conditions of modeling magnetic turbulence. We adopt a backward-in-time method to solve the Newton-Lorentz…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 F. -J. Kong , G. Qin , L. -H. Zhang

Using one-dimensional hybrid expanding box model we investigate properties of the solar wind in the outer heliosphere. We assume a proton-electron plasma with a strictly transverse ambient magnetic field and, beside the expansion, we take…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 Petr Hellinger , Pavel M. Travnicek