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most citedInterpenetrating plasma shells: near-equipartition magnetic field generation and non-thermal particle acceleration

402 citations

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astro-ph2006★ 23 cited

Physical problems (microphysics) in relativistic plasma flows

L. O. Silva

Many problems in astrophysics involve relativistic outflows. The plasma dynamics in these scenarios is critical to determine the conditions for the self-consistent evolution of the…

astro-ph2005★ 87 cited

Cluster magnetic fields from large-scale-structure and galaxy-cluster shocks

Mikhail V. Medvedev, Luis O. Silva, Marc Kamionkowski

The origin of the micro-Gauss magnetic fields in galaxy clusters is one of the outstanding problem of modern cosmology. We have performed three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulat…

astro-ph2004★ 196 cited

Long-time evolution of magnetic fields in relativistic GRB shocks

Mikhail V. Medvedev, Massimiliano Fiore, Ricardo A. Fonseca +2

We investigate the long-time evolution of magnetic fields generated by the two-stream instability at ultra- and sub-relativistic astrophysical collisionless shocks. Based on 3D PIC…

astro-ph2003★ 402 cited

Interpenetrating plasma shells: near-equipartition magnetic field generation and non-thermal particle acceleration

L. O. Silva, R. A. Fonseca, J. Tonge +3

We present the first three-dimensional fully kinetic electromagnetic relativistic particle-in-cell simulations of the collision of two interpenetrating plasma shells. The highly ac…

astro-ph2000★ 23 cited

Explosion Implosion Duality and the Laboratory Simulation of Astrophysical Systems

L. O'C. Drury, J. T. Mendonca

The Euler equations of ideal gas dynamics posess a remarkable nonlinear involutional symmetry which allows one to factor out an arbitrary uniform expansion or contraction of the sy…