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Are regions essential for particle injection in relativistic magnetic reconnection?
Omar French, Fan Guo, Xiaocan Li +4
During relativistic magnetic reconnection, X-points ( regions at vanishing guide field) have been proposed to play an essential role in injecting particles into the nonthermal…
Magnetic Reconnection and Associated Particle Acceleration in High-energy Astrophysics
Fan Guo, Yi-Hsin Liu, Seiji Zenitani +1
Magnetic reconnection occurs ubiquitously in the universe and is often invoked to explain fast energy release and particle acceleration in high-energy astrophysics. The study of re…
A Model for Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection
Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Yi-Hsin Liu +1
The past decade has seen an outstanding development of nonthermal particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection in magnetically-dominated systems, with clear signatures of power-l…
First-Principles Theory of the Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection Rate in Astrophysical Pair Plasmas
Matthew Goodbred, Yi-Hsin Liu
We develop a first-principles model for the relativistic magnetic reconnection rate in strongly magnetized pair plasmas. By considering the energy budget and required current densi…
Comment on "Nonideal Fields Solve the Injection Problem in Relativistic Reconnection"
Fan Guo, Xiaocan Li, Omar French +7
Recently, Sironi (PRL, 128, 145102; S22) reported the correlation between particles accelerated into high energy and their crossings of regions with electric field larger than magn…
Radiation and Polarization Signatures from Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Jets--I. A Systematic Study
Haocheng Zhang, Xiaocan Li, Dimitrios Giannios +3
Blazars are relativistic magnetized plasma outflows from supermassive black holes that point very close to our line of sight. Their emission is nonthermal dominated and highly vari…
Magnetic Energy Release, Plasma Dynamics, and Particle Acceleration during Relativistic Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection
Fan Guo, Xiaocan Li, William Daughton +5
In strongly magnetized astrophysical plasma systems, magnetic reconnection is believed to be a primary process during which explosive energy release and particle acceleration occur…
Recent Progress on Particle Acceleration and Reconnection Physics during Magnetic Reconnectionin the Magnetically-dominated Relativistic Regime
Fan Guo, Yi-Hsin Liu, Xiaocan Li +3
Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized astrophysical plasma environments is believed to be the primary process for fast energy release and particle energization. Currently th…
The Critical Role of Collisionless Plasma Energization on the Structure of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection
Yi-Hsin Liu, Shan-Chang Lin, Michael Hesse +4
During magnetically dominated relativistic reconnection, inflowing plasma depletes the initial relativistic pressure at the x-line and collisionless plasma heating inside the diffu…
Determining the Dominant Acceleration Mechanism during Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Large-scale Systems
Fan Guo, Xiaocan Li, William Daughton +5
While a growing body of research indicates that relativistic magnetic reconnection is a prodigious source of particle acceleration in high-energy astrophysical systems, the dominan…
A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas
Yi-Hsin Liu, Michael Hesse, Fan Guo +2
A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas is developed and validated by the fully kinetic simulation. Through considering the force balance…
Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in a Low-beta Pair Plasma
Fan Guo, Hui Li, William Daughton +2
Plasma energization through magnetic reconnection in the magnetically-dominated regime featured by low plasma beta () and/or high magnetization ($σ= B^2/(4 π…
Efficient Production of High-energy Nonthermal Particles during Magnetic Reconnection in a Magnetically-dominated Ion-Electron Plasma
Fan Guo, Xiaocan Li, Hui Li +6
Magnetic reconnection is a leading mechanism for dissipating magnetic energy and accelerating nonthermal particles in Poynting-flux dominated flows. In this letter, we investigate…
Particle Acceleration and Plasma Dynamics during Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetically-dominated Regime
Fan Guo, Yi-Hsin Liu, William Daughton +1
Magnetic reconnection is thought to be the driver for many explosive phenomena in the universe. The energy release and particle acceleration during reconnection have been proposed…
Scaling of magnetic reconnection in relativistic collisionless plasmas
Yi-Hsin Liu, Fan Guo, William Daughton +2
Using fully kinetic simulations, we study the scaling of the inflow speed of collisionless magnetic reconnection from the non-relativistic to ultra-relativistic limit. In the anti-…
Formation of Hard Power-laws in the Energetic Particle Spectra Resulting from Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection
Fan Guo, Hui Li, William Daughton +1
Using fully kinetic simulations, we demonstrate that magnetic reconnection in relativistic plasmas is highly efficient at accelerating particles through a first-order Fermi process…