Mechanism for electron acceleration due to propagation of jets in the solar corona

Abstract

A kinetic analysis is performed here considering close relationship between plasma jets in the solar corona and a consequent acceleration of electrons. Solar jets are formed when a plasma stream is shooted out from a reconnection site. In some cases these jets are temporally and spatially associated with type III radio bursts, the latter being the radio signatures of nonthermal electron beam propagation through the corona. This theoretical work on jet associated type III burst argue the possibility of regarding the plasma jet as a trigger mechanism for electron energization (heating or/and acceleration). While the jet propagates in the solar corona, it creates wave-like disturbances in the background plasma, that are in general unstable. Further on we are interested in how a test electron will behave in such (electrostatic) wave field. The settings for the jet and the test electron are done under typical coronal conditions.