2 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
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…
astro-ph.HE2023
Microphysics of Particle Reflection in Weibel-Mediated Shocks
Jasmine Parsons, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Arno Vanthieghem
Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations have shown that relativistic collisionless shocks mediated by the Weibel instability accelerate about 1% of incoming particles, while the majorit…