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Distortion of a relativistic jet echoing a magnetic flux eruption
Krzysztof Nalewajko, Mateusz Kapusta, Bart Ripperda +1
Magnetized accretion onto spinning black holes can accumulate a large magnetic flux across the event horizon and launch a pair of relativistic jets via the Blandford-Znajek mechani…
High-energy variability of the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211
Sarah M. Wagner, Jeffrey D. Scargle, Greg Madejski +4
The production site and process responsible for the highly variable high-energy emission observed from blazar jets are still debated. Gravitational lenses can be used as microscope…
Tension of toroidal magnetic field in reconnection plasmoids and relativistic jets
Krzysztof Nalewajko
Toroidal magnetic field is a key ingredient of relativistic jets launched by certain accreting astrophysical black holes, and of plasmoids emerging from the tearing instability dur…
Chaotic magnetic disconnections trigger flux eruptions in accretion flows channeled onto magnetically saturated Kerr black holes
Krzysztof Nalewajko, Mateusz Kapusta, Agnieszka Janiuk
Magnetized accretion flow onto a black hole (BH) may lead to accumulation of poloidal magnetic flux across its horizon, which for high BH spin can power far-reaching relativistic j…
Non-thermal particle acceleration in collisionless relativistic electron-proton reconnection
G. R. Werner, D. A. Uzdensky, M. C. Begelman +2
Magnetic reconnection in relativistic collisionless plasmas can accelerate particles and power high-energy emission in various astrophysical systems. Whereas most previous studies…
The extent of power-law energy spectra in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasmas
G. R. Werner, D. A. Uzdensky, B. Cerutti +2
Using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we characterize the energy spectra of particles accelerated by relativistic magnetic reconnection (without guide field) in colli…
Stochastic Modeling of the Fermi/LAT Gamma-ray Blazar Variability
Malgorzata A. Sobolewska, Aneta Siemiginowska, Brandon C. Kelly +1
We study the gamma-ray variability of 13 blazars observed with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). These blazars have the most complete light curves collected during the first 4…