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Particle-in-cell simulations of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas
K. M. Schoeffler, B. Eichmann, F. Pucci +1
Two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations explore the collisionless tearing instability developing in a Harris equilibrium configuration in a pair (electron-positron) plas…
Electrostatic Bursts Generated by the Ion-Ion Acoustic Instability with Solar Wind Plasma Parameters
Mahmoud Saad Afify, Jürgen Dreher, Kevin Schoeffler +2
This study is motivated by recent observations from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission, which have been identified as the ion-acoustic waves from 15 to 25 solar radii. These obse…
Anisotropic Heating and Parallel Heat Flux in Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection with Intense Guide Fields
Jincai Ren, Giuseppe Arrò, Maria Elena Innocenti +1
Electron-only reconnection is a process recently observed in the Earth's magnetosheath, where magnetic reconnection occurs at electron kinetic scales with only electrons involved.…
Applications of Fast Magnetic Reconnection Models to the Atmospheres of the Sun and Protoplanetary Disks
Fulvia Pucci, Alkendra Singh, Uma Gorti +4
Partially-ionized plasmas consist of charged and neutral particles whose mutual collisions modify magnetic reconnection compared with the fully-ionized case. The collisions alter t…
Fully Kinetic Simulations of Proton-Beam-Driven Instabilities from Parker Solar Probe Observations
Luca Pezzini, Andrei N. Zhukov, Fabio Bacchini +5
The expanding solar wind plasma ubiquitously exhibits anisotropic non-thermal particle velocity distributions. Typically, proton Velocity Distribution Functions (VDFs) show the pre…