4 papers
Can magnetic reconnection power neutrino emission from AGN coronae?
Omar French, Gregory R. Werner, Mitchell C. Begelman
We investigate whether reconnection of small-scale current sheets in transrelativistic supermassive black hole (SMBH) coronae can supply the nonthermal protons needed for high-ener…
Particle injection in three-dimensional relativistic magnetic reconnection
Omar French, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky
Relativistic magnetic reconnection has been proposed as an important nonthermal particle acceleration (NTPA) mechanism that generates power-law spectra and high-energy emissions. P…
Dissipation and particle acceleration at intermittent structures with velocity and magnetic shear: Interaction of Kelvin-Helmholtz and Drift-Kink instabilities
Tsun Hin Navin Tsung, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky +1
We present two-dimensional (2D) particle-in-cell simulations of a magnetized, collisionless, relativistic pair plasma subjected to combined velocity and magnetic-field shear, a sce…
Three-dimensional Dynamics of Strongly Magnetized Ion-Electron Relativistic Reconnection
Fabio Bacchini, Gregory R. Werner, Camille Granier +1
We present 3D simulations of semirelativistic collisionless magnetic reconnection, where upstream ions are subrelativistic while electrons are ultrarelativistic. We employ the real…