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most citedKinetic turbulence in fast 3D collisionless guide-field magnetic reconnection

30 citations · 298 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2025

Small-scale inhomogeneity effects on coherent solar radio emission

Xiaowei Zhou, Patricio Munoz, Jan Benacek +5

Coherent radio emission mechanism of solar radio bursts is one of the most complicated and controversial topics in solar physics. To clarify the mechanism(s) of different types of…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

Poynting flux transport channels formed in polar cap regions of neutron star magnetospheres

Jan Benáček, Andrey Timokhin, Patricio A. Muñoz +4

Pair cascades in polar cap regions of neutron stars are considered to be an essential process in various models of coherent radio emissions of pulsars. The cascades produce pair pl…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Streaming instability in neutron star magnetospheres: No indication of soliton-like waves

Jan Benáček, Patricio A. Muñoz, Jörg Büchner +1

Coherent radiation of pulsars, magnetars, and fast radio bursts could, in theory, be interpreted as radiation from solitons and soliton-like waves. The solitons are meant to contai…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 7 cited

Electron inertia effects in 3D hybrid-kinetic collisionless plasma turbulence

Patricio A. Muñoz, Neeraj Jain, Meisam Farzalipour Tabriz +2

The effects of the electron inertia on the current sheets that are formed out of kinetic turbulence are relevant to understand the importance of coherent structures in turbulence a…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 5 cited

Proton and Helium Heating by Cascading Turbulence in a Low-beta Plasma

Zhaodong Shi, P. A. Muñoz, J. Büchner +1

How ions are energized and heated is a fundamental problem in the study of energy dissipation in magnetized plasmas. In particular, the heating of heavy ions (including ${}^{4}\mat…

physics.plasm-ph2022

Hybrid-Kinetic Approach: Inertial Electrons

Neeraj Jain, Patricio A. Muñoz, Jörg Büchner

Hybrid-kinetic simulations describe ion-scale kinetic phenomena in space plasmas by considering ions kinetically, i.e. as particles, while electrons are modelled as a fluid. Most o…