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Radiation and Polarization Signatures from Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Jets--II. Connection with -rays
Haocheng Zhang, Xiaocan Li, Dimitrios Giannios +5
It is commonly believed that blazar jets are relativistic magnetized plasma outflows from supermassive black holes. One key question is how the jets dissipate magnetic energy to ac…
Variable Ion Compositions of Solar Energetic Particle Events in the Inner Heliosphere: A Field-line Braiding Model with Compound Injections
Fan Guo, Lulu Zhao, Christina M. S. Cohen +8
We propose a model for interpreting highly variable ion composition ratios in solar energetic particles (SEP) events recently observed by Parker Solar Probe (PSP) at a…
Fast Magnetic Reconnection induced by Resistivity Gradients in 2D Magnetohydrodynamics
Shan-Chang Lin, Yi-Hsin Liu, Xiaocan Li
Using 2-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations, we show that Petschek-type magnetic reconnection can be induced using a simple resistivity gradient in the reconnec…
Efficient Nonthermal Ion and Electron Acceleration Enabled by the Flux-Rope Kink Instability in 3D Nonrelativistic Magnetic Reconnection
Qile Zhang, Fan Guo, William Daughton +2
The relaxation of field-line tension during magnetic reconnection gives rise to a universal Fermi acceleration process involving the curvature drift of particles. However, the effi…
The Acceleration of Charged Particles and Formation of Power-law Energy Spectra in Nonrelativistic Magnetic Reconnection
Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Yi-Hsin Liu
Magnetic reconnection is a primary driver of particle acceleration processes in space and astrophysical plasmas. Understanding how particles are accelerated and the resulting parti…
The Effect of Thermal Pressure on Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Rate
Xiaocan Li, Yi-Hsin Liu
Modeling collisionless magnetic reconnection rate is an outstanding challenge in basic plasma physics research. While the seemingly universal rate of an order is…