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Particle acceleration in kink-unstable jets
Jordy Davelaar, Alexander A. Philippov, Omer Bromberg +1
Magnetized jets in GRBs and AGNs are thought to be efficient accelerators of particles, however, the process responsible for the acceleration is still a matter of active debate. In…
Kink instability: evolution and energy dissipation in Relativistic Force-Free Non-Rotating Jets
Omer Bromberg, Chandra B. Singh, Jordy Davelaar +1
We study the evolution of kink instability in a force-free, non-rotating plasma column of high magnetization. The main dissipation mechanism is identified as reconnection of magnet…
Extreme Plasma Astrophysics
D. Uzdensky, M. Begelman, A. Beloborodov +22
This is a science white paper submitted to the Astro-2020 and Plasma-2020 Decadal Surveys. The paper describes the present status and emerging opportunities in Extreme Plasma Astro…
Pulsar Radio Emission Mechanism: Radio Nanoshots as a Low Frequency Afterglow of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection
Alexander Philippov, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Anatoly Spitkovsky +1
In this Letter we propose that coherent radio emission of Crab, other young energetic pulsars, and millisecond pulsars is produced in the magnetospheric current sheet beyond the li…