Plasma Astrophysics I

Presentations

• Collisionless Black Hole Accretion

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 12:30 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 12:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Alisa Galishnikova

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Alisa Galishnikova

    Princeton University

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

  • Eliot Quataert

    Princeton University, Princeton

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• Flares from black-hole magnetospheres

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 12:42 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 12:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Benjamin Crinquand

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Benjamin Crinquand

    Princeton University

  • Benoît Cerutti

    Université Grenoble Alpes

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

  • Kyle Parfrey

    Princeton University

  • Guillaume Dubus

    Université Grenoble Alpes

  • Bart Ripperda

    Princeton University/Flatiron Institute

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• Nonthermal emission from the plunging region: a model for the high-energy tail of black hole X-ray binary soft states

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 12:54 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 1:06 PM

  Publication: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220612018H/abstract

  Presenters

  • Amelia Hankla

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Amelia Hankla

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Nicolas Scepi

    JILA

  • Jason Dexter

    JILA

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• Fully kinetic simulations of magnetorotational turbulence in a three-dimensional shearing box

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 1:06 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 1:18 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07061

  Presenters

  • Fabio Bacchini

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Fabio Bacchini

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Lev A Arzamasskiy

    Institute for Advanced Study

  • Vladimir V Zhdankin

    Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute

  • Gregory R Werner

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Mitchell C Begelman

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    University of Colorado, Boulder, Univ. Colorado

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• PIC simulations of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in stratified, collisionless accretion disks

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 1:18 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 1:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Astor Sandoval

    Universidad de Chile

  Authors

  • Astor Sandoval

    Universidad de Chile

  • Mario A Riquelme

    University of Chile, Universidad de Chile

  • Anatoly Spitkovsky

    Princeton University

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• Kinetic plasma energization by magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 1:30 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 1:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Vladimir V Zhdankin

    Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute

  Authors

  • Vladimir V Zhdankin

    Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute

  • Bart Ripperda

    Princeton University

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

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• Entity: new gpu-enabled particle-in-cell code for extreme plasma astrophysics

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 1:42 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 1:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

  Authors

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

  • Hayk Hakobyan

    Princeton University

  • Jens F Mahlmann

    Princeton University

  • Benjamin Crinquand

    Princeton University

  • Alisa Galishnikova

    Princeton University

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• Radiation from particles energized by pinch/kink instabilities in astrophysical jets

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 1:54 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 2:06 PM

  Publication: Ortuno-Macias et al, ApJ 931, 137 (2022) doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acd

  Presenters

  • Gregory R Werner

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Gregory R Werner

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • José Ortuño-Macías

    Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland

  • Krzysztof Nalewajko

    Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    University of Colorado, Boulder, Univ. Colorado

  • Mitchell C Begelman

    University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Are Reconnection X-points Important for Particle Injection during Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection?

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 2:06 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 2:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Fan Guo

    Los Alamos Natl Lab

  Authors

  • Fan Guo

    Los Alamos Natl Lab

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• The universality of particle acceleration in relativistic magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 2:18 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 2:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Lorenzo Sironi

    Columbia University

  Authors

  • Lorenzo Sironi

    Columbia University

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• Magnetic reconnection in large-scale astrophysical systems

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 2:30 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 2:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Samuel R Totorica

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Samuel R Totorica

    Princeton University

  • Mami Machida

    National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    Princeton University, Princeton University, PPPL, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

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• 3D particle-in-cell simulations of relativistic reconnection with strong synchrotron cooling

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 2:42 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 2:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Alexander Chernoglazov

    University of Maryland, College Park

  Authors

  • Alexander Chernoglazov

    University of Maryland, College Park

  • Hayk Hakobyan

    Princeton University

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

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• Radiative reconnection powered TeV flares near the M87 black hole

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 2:54 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 3:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Hayk Hakobyan

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Hayk Hakobyan

    Princeton University

  • Bart Ripperda

    Princeton University

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

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• Simulating Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection with a Pseudo-Spectral Maxwell Solver

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 3:06 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 3:18 PM

  Publication: H. Klion, R. Jambunathan, M. Rowan, R. Lehe, A. Myers, J.-L. Vay and W. Zhang. Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection using Pseudo-Spectral Methods. In-preparation.

  Presenters

  • Hannah E Klion

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Hannah E Klion

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Revathi Jambunathan

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Michael Rowan

    Advanced Micro Devices

  • Remi Lehe

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

  • Jean-Luc Vay

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Andrew Myers

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Weiqun Zhang

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Electron-positron cascade in magnetospheres of supermassive black holes

  ORAL

  Oct. 19, 2022, 3:18 PM – Oct. 19, 2022, 3:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael C Sitarz

    University of Kansas

  Authors

  • Michael C Sitarz

    University of Kansas

  • Mikhail V Medvedev

    University of Kansas & MIT

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