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Emergence of cyclic flux eruptions in kinetic simulations of magnetized spherical accretion onto a Schwarzschild black hole
Enzo Figueiredo, John Mehlhaff, Adrien Soudais +1
The dynamics of black hole magnetospheres critically depend on the black hole spin and on the structure of the accretion flow. In the limit of a Schwarzschild black hole immersed i…
Effect of magnetic field inclination on black hole jet power and particle acceleration
Enzo Figueiredo, Benoît Cerutti, Kyle Parfrey
Rotating black holes are known to launch relativistic jets and accelerate particles provided they accrete a magnetized plasma. However, it remains unclear how the global magnetic f…
Synthetic pulsar lightcurves from global kinetic simulations and comparison with the Fermi-LAT catalog
Benoît Cerutti, Enzo Figueiredo, Guillaume Dubus
Rotation-powered pulsars represent the main class of identified gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy. The wealth of observational data collected by the AGILE and Fermi gamma-ray space t…
Relativistic reconnection with effective resistivity: I. Dynamics and reconnection rate
M. Bugli, E. F. Lopresti, E. Figueiredo +6
Relativistic magnetic reconnection is one of the most fundamental mechanisms considered responsible for the acceleration of relativistic particles in astrophysical jets and magneto…
Composition-asymmetric and sheared relativistic magnetic reconnection
Enzo Figueiredo, Benoît Cerutti, John Mehlhaff +1
Relativistic magnetic reconnection studies have focused on symmetric configurations so far, where the upstream plasma has identical properties on each side of the layer. The bounda…