Mushroom-instability-driven Magnetic Reconnections in Collisionless Relativistic Jets
arXiv:2202.09706 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac5591
Abstract
We study the kinetic plasma dynamics in collisionless relativistic jets with velocity shear, by carrying out particle-in-cell simulations in the transverse plane of a jet. It is discovered that intermittent magnetic reconnections (MRs) are driven by Mushroom instability (MI), which is an important kinetic-scale plasma instability in the plasma shear-flows with relativistic bulk speed. We refer to this sequence of kinetic plasma phenomena as "MI-driven MR". The MI-driven MRs intermittently occur with moving the location of the reconnection points from the vicinity of the initial velocity-shear surface towards the center of the jet. As a consequence, the number density of high energy electrons, which are accelerated by MI-driven MRs, increases with time in the region inside the initial velocity-shear surface with accompanying the generation and subsequent amplification of magnetic fields by MI. The maximum Lorentz factor of electrons increases with initial bulk Lorentz factor of the jet. A possible relation of MI-driven MR to the bright synchrotron emission in jet-spine of active galactic nucleus jets is also discussed.
arXiv comment13 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
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