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Turbulence Mode Decomposition and Anisotropy in Magnetically Dominated Collisionless Plasmas
Samuel T. Sebastian, Siyao Xu, Yue Hu +3
We use the 3D fully kinetic simulation to study different turbulence modes and turbulence anisotropy of relativistic turbulence in magnetically dominated collisionless plasmas. We…
Marginally Stable Current Sheets in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
Camille Granier, Dario Borgogno, Luca Comisso +3
Non-collisional current sheets that form during the nonlinear development of magnetic reconnection are characterized by a small thickness, of the order of the electron skin depth.…
Gravitational electromotive force in magnetic reconnection around Schwarzschild black holes
Felipe A. Asenjo, Luca Comisso
We analytically explore the effects of the gravitational electromotive force on magnetic reconnection around Schwarzschild black holes through a generalized general-relativistic ma…
Magnetic Connections in Curved Spacetime
Felipe A. Asenjo, Luca Comisso
The ideal MHD theorem on the conservation of the magnetic connections between plasma elements is generalized to relativistic plasmas in curved spacetime. The connections between pl…
Visco-Resistive Plasmoid Instability
Luca Comisso, Daniela Grasso
The plasmoid instability in visco-resistive current sheets is analyzed in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. The linear growth rate and the wavenumber are found to scale as $S^…
Generalized Magnetofluid Connections in Pair Plasmas
Felipe A. Asenjo, Luca Comisso, Swadesh M. Mahajan
We extend the magnetic connection theorem of ideal magnetohydrodynamics to nonideal relativistic pair plasmas. Adopting a generalized Ohm's law, we prove the existence of generaliz…