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Development of Tearing Instability in a Current Sheet Forming by Sheared Incompressible Flow
Elizabeth A. Tolman, Nuno F. Loureiro, Dmitri A. Uzdensky
Sweet-Parker current sheets in high Lundquist number plasmas are unstable to tearing, suggesting they will not form in physical systems. Understanding magnetic reconnection thus re…
Numerical investigation of kinetic turbulence in relativistic pair plasmas I: Turbulence statistics
Vladimir Zhdankin, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Gregory R. Werner +1
We describe results from particle-in-cell simulations of driven turbulence in collisionless, magnetized, relativistic pair plasma. This physical regime provides a simple setting fo…
Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in 3D Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Pair Plasma
Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky
As a fundamental process converting magnetic to plasma energy in high-energy astrophysical plasmas, relativistic magnetic reconnection is a leading explanation for the acceleration…
Relativistic Turbulence with Strong Synchrotron and Synchrotron-Self-Compton Cooling
Dmitri A. Uzdensky
Many relativistic plasma environments in high-energy astrophysics, including pulsar wind nebulae, hot accretion flows onto black holes, relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei…