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The energetics of relativistic magnetic reconnection: ion-electron repartition and particle distribution hardness
Mickaël Melzani, Rolf Walder, Doris Folini +2
Collisionless magnetic reconnection is a prime candidate to account for flare-like or steady emission, outflow launching, or plasma heating, in a variety of high-energy astrophysic…
Simulation of microquasars -- the challenge of scales
Rolf Walder, Mickaël Melzani, Doris Folini +2
We present first results of a long-term project which aims at multi-scale, multi-physics simulations of wind accretion in microquasars and high-mass X-ray binaries. The 3D hydrodyn…
Relativistic magnetic reconnection in collisionless ion-electron plasmas explored with particle-in-cell simulations
Mickaël Melzani, Rolf Walder, Doris Folini +2
Magnetic reconnection is a leading mechanism for magnetic energy conversion and high-energy non-thermal particle production in a variety of high-energy astrophysical objects, inclu…