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most citedOrigin of intense electron heating in relativistic blast waves

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astro-ph.HE2026

Entity -- Hardware-agnostic Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Astrophysics. III: Higher-order shape functions & generalized field stencils

Ludwig M. Böss, Arno Vanthieghem, Hayk Hakobyan +2

Modern particle-in-cell (PIC) codes have become an integral tool in plasma astrophysics. As most plasma phenomena grow from initially small instabilities, it is important to ensure…

astro-ph.HE2025

Entity -- Hardware-agnostic Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Astrophysics. I: Curvilinear Special Relativistic Module

Hayk Hakobyan, Ludwig M. Böss, Yangyang Cai +8

Entity is a new-generation, fully open-source particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed to overcome key limitations in astrophysical plasma modeling, particularly the extreme separatio…

astro-ph.HE2025

Superluminal Wave Activation at Relativistic Magnetized Shocks

Jens F. Mahlmann, Logan Eskildsen, Arno Vanthieghem +2

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely energetic radio transients, some are generated in magnetar magnetospheres and winds. Despite a growing number of observations, their emission…

astro-ph.HE2024

Relativistically Magnetized Collisionless Shocks in Pair Plasma: I. Solitons, Chaos, and Thermalization

Arno Vanthieghem, Amir Levinson

In this paper, the first in a series, we present a new theoretical model for the global structure and dissipation of relativistically magnetized collisionless shock waves. Quite re…

astro-ph.HE2024

Generation of Large-scale Magnetic Fields Upstream of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Shocks

Ryan Golant, Arno Vanthieghem, Daniel Groselj +1

The origins of the magnetic fields that power gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow emission are not fully understood. One possible channel for generating these fields involves the pre-c…

astro-ph.HE2024

Electron-Ion Temperature Ratio in Transrelativistic Unmagnetized Shock Waves

Arno Vanthieghem, Vasileios Tsiolis, Frederico Fiuza +3

Weakly magnetized shock waves are paramount to a large diversity of environments, including supernova remnants, blazars, and binary-neutron-star mergers. Understanding the distribu…