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A novel kinetic mechanism for the onset of fast magnetic reconnection and plasmoid instabilities in collisionless plasmas
W. Fox, G. Fiksel, D. B. Schaeffer +9
Magnetic reconnection can explosively release magnetic energy when opposing magnetic fields merge and annihilate through a current sheet, driving plasma jets and accelerating non-t…
Spontaneous magnetization of collisionless plasma through the action of a shear flow
Muni Zhou, Vladimir Zhdankin, Matthew W. Kunz +2
We study in a fully kinetic framework the generation of seed magnetic fields through the Weibel instability driven in an initially unmagnetized plasma by a large-scale shear force.…
Kinetic Simulations of Imbalanced Turbulence in a Relativistic Plasma: Net Flow and Particle Acceleration
Amelia Hankla, Vladimir Zhdankin, Gregory Werner +2
Turbulent high-energy astrophysical systems often feature asymmetric energy injection: for instance, Alfven waves propagating from an accretion disk into its corona. Such systems a…
Pair-Regulated Klein-Nishina Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection with Applications to Blazars and Accreting Black Holes
J. M. Mehlhaff, G. R. Werner, D. A. Uzdensky +1
Relativistic magnetic reconnection is a powerful agent through which magnetic energy can be tapped in astrophysics, energizing particles that then produce observed radiation. In so…
Reconnection and particle acceleration in 3D current sheet evolution in moderately-magnetized astrophysical pair plasma
Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky
Magnetic reconnection, a plasma process converting magnetic energy to particle kinetic energy, is often invoked to explain magnetic energy releases powering high-energy flares in a…
Statistical description of coalescing magnetic islands via magnetic reconnection
Muni Zhou, David H. Wu, Nuno F. Loureiro +1
The physical picture of interacting magnetic islands provides a useful paradigm for certain plasma dynamics in a variety of physical environments, such as the solar corona, the hel…