18 citations · 18 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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astro-ph.HE2026
The Birth of Plasmoids: Weibel-Driven Secondary Tearing and its Suppression in Relativistic Reconnection
Matthew Goodbred, Anatoly Spitkovsky
Plasmoids, or magnetic islands, dominate relativistic reconnection layers in kinetic simulations, yet the instability that creates them remains poorly understood. By tracking newbo…
astro-ph.HE2026
Diocotron Modes in Pulsar Magnetospheres: Charge Diffusion and Implications for Radio Emission Variability
Matthew Goodbred, Anatoly Spitkovsky
The diocotron instability is a non-axisymmetric plasma instability that should occur generically in the differentially rotating equatorial plane of pulsar magnetospheres. We presen…
astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited
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…