4 papers
Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Giant Magnetar Bursts
Koushik Chatterjee, Alexander Philippov, Andrei M. Beloborodov +3
Gradual crustal deformation can generate strongly twisted magnetic fields around magnetars, potentially triggering giant flares with total energies exceeding $10^{44}\,\mathrm{erg}…
Modeling of Relativistic Plasmas with a Conservative Discontinuous Galerkin Method
James Juno, Grant Johnson, Alexander Philippov +3
We present a new method for solving the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell system of equations, applicable to a wide range of extreme high-energy-density astrophysical and laboratory env…
Entity -- Hardware-agnostic Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Astrophysics. I: Curvilinear Special Relativistic Module
Hayk Hakobyan, Ludwig M. Böss, Yangyang Cai +8
Entity is a new-generation, fully open-source particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed to overcome key limitations in astrophysical plasma modeling, particularly the extreme separatio…
-- Hardware-agnostic Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Astrophysics. II: General Relativistic Module
Alisa Galishnikova, Hayk Hakobyan, Alexander Philippov +1
Black hole environments often host plasmas that are fully collisionless or contain intrinsically collisionless regions, including relativistic jets and coronae where particle energ…