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Two-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations of axisymmetric black hole magnetospheres: angular dependence of the Blandford-Znajek flux
Kouichi Hirotani, Hsien Shang, Ruben Krasnopolsky +1
We examine the temporary evolution of axisymmetric magnetospheres around rapidly rotating black holes (BHs), by applying our two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation code. Assum…
From electrons to Janskys: Full stokes polarized radiative transfer in 3D relativistic particle-in-cell jet simulations
N. R. MacDonald, K. -I. Nishikawa
The underlying plasma composition of relativistic extragalactic jets remains largely unknown. Relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) models are able to reproduce many of the obser…
Two-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations of axisymmetric black hole magnetospheres
Kouichi Hirotani, Ruben Krasnopolsky, Hsien Shang +2
We investigate the temporal evolution of an axisymmetric magnetosphere around a rapidly rotating, stellar-mass black hole, applying a two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation sc…
3D PIC Simulations for Relativistic Jets with a Toroidal Magnetic Field
A. Meli, K. Nishikawa, C. Koehn +6
We have investigated how kinetic instabilities such as the Weibel instability (WI), the mushroom instability (MI), and the kinetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (kKHI) are excited i…
PIC methods in astrophysics: Simulations of relativistic jets and kinetic physics in astrophysical systems
Kenichi Nishikawa, Ioana Dutan, Christoph Koehn +1
The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method has been developed by Oscar Buneman, Charles Birdsall, Roger W. Hockney, and John Dawson in the 1950s and, with the advances of computing power, h…
Rapid Particle Acceleration due to Recollimation Shocks and Turbulent Magnetic Fields in Injected Jets with Helical Magnetic Fields
Kenichi Nishikawa, Yosuke Mizuno, Jose L. Gomez +7
One of the key questions in the study of relativistic jets is how magnetic reconnection occurs and whether it can effectively accelerate electrons in the jet. We performed 3D parti…