Mini-conference: Topics in Plasma Astrophysics

Presentations

• Kinetic Simulations of Black-Hole Magnetospheres: Jets, Reconnection, and the Connection to Turbulence

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 2:00 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 2:20 PM

  Authors

  • Kyle Parfrey

    • Princeton University

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• Radiative Relativistic Collisionless Plasma Turbulence as a Frontier of Extreme Plasma Astrophysics

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 2:20 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 2:40 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
    • University of Colorado, Boulder
    • University of Colorado - Boulder
    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Vladimir Zhdankin

    • Princeton University

  • Gregory Werner

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Mitchell Begelman

    • University of Colorado, Boulder; JILA

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• On QED plasmas

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 2:40 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Mikhail Medvedev

    • University of Kansas

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• Multiscale simulations of particle acceleration in astrophysical shocks

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 3:00 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 3:20 PM

  Authors

  • Anatoly Spitkovsky

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

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• General Relativistic Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Pair Producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 3:20 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 3:40 PM

  Authors

  • Yajie Yuan

    • Princeton University; Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
    • Princeton University

  • Yuran Chen

    • Princeton University

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• Particle Acceleration by Current-driven Instabilities

  ORAL · Invited

  Oct. 24, 2019, 3:40 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Zrake

    • Columbia University

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• Particle motion and acceleration in accretion flows

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 4:00 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 4:15 PM

  Authors

  • Fabio Bacchini

    • GU Frankfurt am Main

  • Bart Ripperda

    • Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute

  • Oliver Porth

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Lorenzo Sironi

    • Columbia University NYC

  • Alexander Philippov

    • Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
    • Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institutes

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• Kinetic simulations of electron pre-energization by magnetized collisionless shocks in expanding laboratory plasmas

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 4:15 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Kirill Lezhnin

    • Princeton University

  • William Fox

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

  • Derek Schaeffer

    • Princeton University

  • Jackson Matteucci

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    • Princeton University

  • Anatoly Spitkovsky

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  • Kai Germaschewski

    • U. New Hampshire, Durham
    • University of New Hampshire

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• A head-on collision between collisionless shock waves leads to strong magnetic fields and significant slowdown

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 4:30 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 4:45 PM

  Authors

  • Elisabetta Boella

    • Lancaster University
    • Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa

  • Nitin Shukla

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico

  • Giovanni Lapenta

    • KU Leuven

  • Ricardo Fonseca

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico

  • Luís Silva

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Técnico

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• Canonical Vorticity Framework for Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2019, 4:45 PM – Oct. 24, 2019, 5:00 PM

  Authors

  • Young Dae Yoon

    • Caltech

  • Paul M. Bellan

    • Caltech

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