Kappa-tail Technique: Modeling and Application to Solar Energetic Particles Observed by Parker Solar Probe

G Livadiotis, AT Cummings, ME Cuesta… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop the kappa-tail fitting technique, which analyzes observations of power-law tails
of distributions and energy flux spectra, and connects them to theoretical modeling of kappa …

Fundamental solution of diffusion equation for Kappa gas: Diffusion length for suprathermal electrons in solar wind

MH Benetti, FEM Silveira, IL Caldas - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
A recent numerical treatment of data obtained by the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft
describes the electron concentration in solar wind as a function of the heliocentric distance …

Suprathermal corrections on galactic cosmic rays driven magnetohydrodynamic waves and gravitational instability in astrophysical plasmas

P Boro, RP Prajapati - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction of two populations of highly energetic cosmic rays (CRs) and suprathermal
kappa gas in the astrophysical systems manifests exciting features of low-frequency …

Universality of kappa distributions

G Livadiotis, D McComas - Europhysics Letters, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reveals the universality of the particle energy distribution function, despite the
arbitrariness that characterizes the generalized thermodynamic entropic function. We show …

Towards a physical interpretation of the deformation parametrization in nonextensive statistics: Evidence for a generalization of the number of degrees of freedom in a …

FEM Silveira, MH Benetti - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2021 - Springer
We explore new ways to interpret the role played by the deformation q-parameter in
nonextensive statistics. A generalized polytropic γ γ-index is deduced with basis on the …

Suprathermal corrections to Bohm–Gross dispersion

FEM Silveira, MH Benetti, IL Caldas - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A detailed resource to data analysis shows that the widely known van Hoven and Derfler–
Simonen laboratory results are far from reasonable agreement with the standard Bohm …

The envelope soliton for the nonlinear interaction of Langmuir waves with electron acoustic waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere

Y Liu, J Zhou - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The nonlinear coupling of Langmuir waves with electron-acoustic waves is investigated
using the kinetic theory, where the hot electron component is modeled by the kappa …

[HTML][HTML] Map of suprathermal onto nonextensive parameters describing Langmuir waves

FEM Silveira, MH Benetti - Fundamental Plasma Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a polytropic-like index that depends on the concentration and number of
degrees of freedom of a gas of charged particles following a nonextensive distribution. An …

An exact analytical solution for the weakly magnetized flow around an axially symmetric paraboloid, with application to magnetosphere models

J Kleimann, C Röken - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Rotationally symmetric bodies with longitudinal cross sections of parabolic shape are
frequently used to model astrophysical objects, such as magnetospheres and other blunt …