Plasma Astrophysics III

Presentations

• Quasi-cylindrical kinetic simulations of particle acceleration driven by the kink instability in relativistic magnetized jets

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 4:00 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 4:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Gabrielle Guttormsen

    University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Gabrielle Guttormsen

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Frederico Fiuza

    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Stanford University, California, U.S.A., SLAC, SLAC, Stanford University

  • E. Paulo Alves

    UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles

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• Particle Injection in Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 4:12 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 4:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Omar J French

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Omar J French

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Gregory R Werner

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    Univ. Colorado

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• Energy Gain from Nonideal Electric Fields During Injection in Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 4:24 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 4:36 PM

  Publication: S. Totorica, S. Zenitani, S. Matsukiyo, M. Machida, K. Sekiguchi, and A. Bhattacharjee, "Exact Calculation of Nonideal Fields Demonstrates their Dominance of Injection in Relativistic Reconnection'", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Accepted, 2023.

  Presenters

  • Samuel R Totorica

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Samuel R Totorica

    Princeton University

  • Seiji Zenitani

    Austrian Academy of Sciences

  • Shuichi Matsukiyo

    Kyushu Univ, Kyushu University

  • Mami Machida

    National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

  • Kazuhiro Sekiguchi

    National Institutes of Natural Sciences

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    Princeton University

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• Energetic spectra of relativistic reconnection at large scales.

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 4:36 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 4:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    Ruhr Universität Bochum

  Authors

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    Ruhr Universität Bochum

  • Maria Elena Innocenti

    Ruhr Universitaet Bochum

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• Energetics of semirelativistic electron-ion magnetic reconnection in 2D and 3D simulations

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 4:48 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 5:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Gregory R Werner

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Gregory R Werner

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    Univ. Colorado

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• A New Theory of Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 5:00 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 5:12 PM

  Publication: Goodbred, M., & Liu, Y. H. (2022). First-Principles Theory of the Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection Rate in Astrophysical Pair Plasmas. Physical Review Letters, 129(26), 265101.<br>DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.265101

  Presenters

  • Matthew B Goodbred

    Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Matthew B Goodbred

    Dartmouth College

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    Dartmouth College

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• Ab-initio Comptonization in Reconnecting Current Sheets of X-ray Binary Coronae

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 5:12 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 5:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Hayk Hakobyan

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  Authors

  • Hayk Hakobyan

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Daniel Groselj

    Columbia University

  • Lorenzo Sironi

    Columbia University

  • Andrei M Beloborodov

    Columbia University

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland, College Park

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• Advanced Maxwell Solver Algorithms in Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 5:24 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 5:36 PM

  Publication: Klion, et al. "Particle-in-cell Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection with Advanced Maxwell Solver Algorithms" 2023. ApJ 952 8 (DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/acd75b)

  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

  • Eloise Yang

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Lizzette Corrales

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Donald Willcox

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Jean-Luc Vay

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Remi Lehe

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Andrew Myers

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Axel Huebl

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Weiqun Zhang

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Electron and ion thermalization in collisionless shocks

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 5:36 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 5:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Alexis Marret

    SLAC

  Authors

  • Alexis Marret

    SLAC

  • Frederico Fiuza

    Instituto Superior Tecnico (Portugal)

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• A New Covariant Formalism for Kinetic Plasma Simulations in Curved Spacetimes

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 5:48 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 6:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Tyler Trent

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Tyler Trent

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Feryal Ozel

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Dimitrios Psaltis

    University of Arizona

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• Origin of highly elongated magnetized interstellar filaments: Magnetized turbulence fuels and counterbalances thermal instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 6:00 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 6:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Ka Ho Yuen

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANL

  Authors

  • Ka Ho Yuen

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANL

  • Ka Wai Ho

    University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Alexandre Lazarian

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

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• Effects of Pressure-Anisotropy-Driven Instabilities on the Electrical Resistivity of Collisionless, High-Beta Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 6:12 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 6:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Himawan W Winarto

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Himawan W Winarto

    Princeton University

  • Matthew W Kunz

    Princeton University

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• Geometrical Formulation of Hybrid Kinetic and Gyrokinetic Hamiltonian Field Theory for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 6:24 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 6:36 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05473

  Presenters

  • Felipe Nathan deOliveira Lopes

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  Authors

  • Felipe Nathan deOliveira Lopes

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Daniel Told

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Sreenivasa Thatikonda

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Karen Pommois

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Aleksandr Mustonen

    Ruhr University - Bochum

  • Ken Hagiwara

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Rainer Grauer

    Ruhr University - Bochum

  • Frank Jenko

    University of Texas at Austin, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany

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• Embedding Lorentz covariance in data-driven reduced plasma models from fully kinetic simulations

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 6:36 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 6:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Madox C McGrae-Menge

    University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Madox C McGrae-Menge

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Jacob R Pierce

    University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Plasma Simulation Group, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, UCLA

  • Frederico Fiuza

    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Stanford University, California, U.S.A., SLAC, SLAC, Stanford University

  • E. Paulo Alves

    UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles

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• Heliospheric Magnetic Fields Generated by Solar Proton/Electron Jets

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2023, 6:48 PM – Nov. 2, 2023, 7:00 PM

  Publication: C.F. Driscoll "The Electric Fields and Electric Jets of the Sun and Solar Wind," Submitted to Physics of Plasmas, Special Issue on Plasma Physics of the Sun, 21-May-2023 . http://NNP.ucsd.edu/Solar ; http://arXiv.org/abs/2305.13488 .<br><br>C.F. Driscoll "Heliospheric Magnetic Fields Generated by Solar Wind Current Fluctuations," DPP-2022 NP11.147. All PDF Slides and Text: http://NNP.ucsd.edu/Solar .

  Presenters

  • Charles F Driscoll

    University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Charles F Driscoll

    University of California, San Diego

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