3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Reduced Effective Viscosity from Anisotropic Transport and Plasma Instabilities in the Sloshing Cores of Galaxy Clusters
John A. ZuHone, Stephen Majeski, Annie Heinrich +3
The G magnetic field in the intracluster medium (ICM) introduces a pressure anisotropy with respect to the magnetic field's direction that manifests as an anisotropic visc…
astro-ph.HE2026
The Role of Whistler and Ion Cyclotron Waves in Particle Escape from Mirror Modes in the Intracluster Medium
Petr Ugarov, Francisco Ley, Ellen Zweibel
Electron and ion-cyclotron waves are well known to exist in solar system plasmas but their existence and importance in galaxy clusters is an open question. Guided by numerical simu…
physics.plasm-ph2026
On the double-adiabatic equations in the relativistic regime
Francisco Ley, Aaron Tran, Ellen G. Zweibel
We revisit the double adiabatic evolution equations and extend them to the relativistic and ultrarelativistic regimes. We analytically solve the relativistic, time-dependent drift…