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Relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasmas and its astrophysical applications
Daniel Kagan, Lorenzo Sironi, Benoit Cerutti +1
This review discusses the physics of magnetic reconnection, a process in which the magnetic field topology changes and magnetic energy is converted to kinetic energy, in pair plasm…
The Role of the Magnetorotational Instability in Massive Stars
J. Craig Wheeler, Daniel Kagan, Emmanouil Chatzopoulos
The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is key physics in accretion disks and is widely considered to play some role in massive-star core collapse. Models of rotating massive stars…
The Role of the Magnetorotational Instability in the Sun
Daniel Kagan, J. Craig Wheeler
We calculate growth rates for nonaxisymmetric instabilities including the magnetorotational instability (MRI) throughout the Sun. We first derive a dispersion relation for nonaxisy…