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astro-ph.IM2017★ 99 cited
A comprehensive comparison of relativistic particle integrators
Bart Ripperda, Fabio Bacchini, Jannis Teunissen +5
We compare relativistic particle integrators commonly used in plasma physics showing several test cases relevant for astrophysics. Three explicit particle pushers are considered, n…
physics.space-ph2017★ 58 cited
On the origin of the crescent-shaped distributions observed by MMS at the magnetopause
G. Lapenta, J. Berchem, M. Zhou +12
MMS observations recently confirmed that crescent-shaped electron velocity distributions in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field occur in the electron diffusion region nea…