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Magnetic Reconnection as a Mechanism for Energy Extraction from Rotating Black Holes
Luca Comisso, Felipe A. Asenjo
Spinning black holes store rotational energy that can be extracted. When a black hole is immersed in an externally supplied magnetic field, reconnection of magnetic field lines wit…
Major Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in Understanding Magnetic Reconnection and Related Explosive Phenomena in Solar and Heliospheric Plasmas
H. Ji, J. Karpen, A. Alt +105
Magnetic reconnection underlies many explosive phenomena in the heliosphere and in laboratory plasmas. The new research capabilities in theory/simulations, observations, and labora…
Hard Synchrotron Spectra from Magnetically Dominated Plasma Turbulence
Luca Comisso, Emanuele Sobacchi, Lorenzo Sironi
Synchrotron emission from astrophysical nonthermal sources usually assumes that the emitting particles are isotropic. By means of large-scale two- and three-dimensional particle-in…
Turbulent model of Crab nebula radiation
Yonggang Luo, Maxim Lyutikov, Tea Temim +1
We construct a turbulent model of the Crab Nebula's non-thermal emission. The present model resolves a number of long-standing problems of the Kennel-Coroniti (1984) model: (i) the…