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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…
Electromagnetic Precursors to Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Kinetic Simulations of Magnetospheric Flaring
Jasmine Parsons, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Alexander Philippov +1
We present the first 3D global kinetic simulations of the interacting magnetospheres of pre-merger binary neutron stars. The stars, whose magnetic moments are anti-aligned, twist t…
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…
-- Hardware-agnostic Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Astrophysics. II: General Relativistic Module
Alisa Galishnikova, Hayk Hakobyan, Alexander Philippov +1
Black hole environments often host plasmas that are fully collisionless or contain intrinsically collisionless regions, including relativistic jets and coronae where particle energ…
Reconnection-driven Flares in M87*: Proton-Synchrotron-powered GeV Emission
Hayk Hakobyan, Amir Levinson, Lorenzo Sironi +2
Magnetic reconnection in current layers that form intermittently in radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes is a promising mechanism for particle acceleration and…
Plasma Instabilities Dominate Radioactive Transients Magnetic Fields: The self-confinement of leptons in Type Ia and Core-Collapse Supernovae, and Kilonovae
Dhvanil D. Desai, Colby C. Haggerty, Benjamin J. Shappee +8
The light curves of radioactive transients, such as supernovae and kilonovae, are powered by the decay of radioisotopes, which release high-energy leptons through and d…