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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph.IM2017★ 99 cited

A comprehensive comparison of relativistic particle integrators

Bart Ripperda, Fabio Bacchini, Jannis Teunissen +5

We compare relativistic particle integrators commonly used in plasma physics showing several test cases relevant for astrophysics. Three explicit particle pushers are considered, n…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 40 cited

Reconnection and particle acceleration in interacting flux ropes -- II. 3D effects on test particles in magnetically dominated plasmas

B. Ripperda, O. Porth, C. Xia +1

We analyze particle acceleration in explosive reconnection events in magnetically dominated proton-electron plasmas. Reconnection is driven by large-scale magnetic stresses in inte…