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First-Principles Plasma Simulations of Black-Hole Jet Launching
Kyle Parfrey, Alexander Philippov, Benoit Cerutti
Black holes drive powerful plasma jets to relativistic velocities. This plasma should be collisionless, and self-consistently supplied by pair creation near the horizon. We present…
Effects of synchrotron cooling and pair production on collisionless relativistic reconnection
Hayk Hakobyan, Alexander Philippov, Anatoly Spitkovsky
High energy radiation from nonthermal particles accelerated in relativistic magnetic reconnection is thought to be important in many astrophysical systems, ranging from blazar jets…
Particle acceleration in relativistic magnetic reconnection with strong inverse-Compton cooling in pair plasmas
Gregory R. Werner, Alexander A. Philippov, Dmitri A. Uzdensky
Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations have shown that relativistic collisionless magnetic reconnection drives nonthermal particle acceleration (NTPA), potentially explaining high-ener…