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Synchrotron Firehose Instability
Vladimir Zhdankin, Matthew W. Kunz, Dmitri A. Uzdensky
We demonstrate using linear theory and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations that a synchrotron-cooling collisionless plasma acquires pressure anisotropy and, if the plasma beta is su…
Fully kinetic shearing-box simulations of magnetorotational turbulence in 2D and 3D. I. Pair plasmas
Fabio Bacchini, Lev Arzamasskiy, Vladimir Zhdankin +3
The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a fundamental mechanism determining the macroscopic dynamics of astrophysical accretion disks. In collisionless accretion flows around su…
Nonthermal particle acceleration from maximum entropy in collisionless plasmas
Vladimir Zhdankin
Dissipative processes cause collisionless plasmas in many systems to develop nonthermal particle distributions with broad power-law tails. The prevalence of power-law energy distri…