3 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
Energy Transport and Heating by Non-Thermal Electrons in a Turbulent Solar Flare Environment
A. Gordon Emslie, Eduard P. Kontar
The impulsive phase of a solar flare is known to generate strong turbulence and to transfer magnetic energy into accelerated electrons. Recognizing the importance of angular diffus…
astro-ph.SR2025
Solar flares as electron accelerators: toward a resolution of the acceleration efficiency issue
Anna Volpara, Paolo Massa, Michele Piana +2
A major open issue concerning the active Sun is the effectiveness with which magnetic reconnection accelerates electrons in flares. A paper published by {\em{Nature}} in 2022 used…
gr-qc2024
An Event Horizon 'Firewall' Undergoing Cosmological Expansion
R N Henriksen, A G Emslie
We embed an object with a singular horizon structure, reminiscent of (but fundamentally different from, except in a limiting case) a black-hole event horizon, in an expanding, sphe…