Astrophysical Plasma: Jets, GRBs, Pulsars, White Dwarfs, and Computational Techniques

Presentations

• Magnetic Field Decay and Particle Acceleration when Large-amplitude Magnetic Shear Waves Propagating through a Pulsar Wind Termination Shock

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 9:30 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 9:42 AM

  Authors

  • Yingchao Lu

    • Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Fan Guo

    • Los Alamos National Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Hui Li

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Patrick Kilian

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Chengkun Huang

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Edison Liang

    • Rice University

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• Non-adiabatic electron heating in supernova remnant shocks

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 9:42 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 9:54 AM

  Authors

  • Vasileios Tsiolis

    • Princeton University

  • Patrick Crumley

    • Princeton University

  • Anatoly Spitkovsky

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton NJ, 08544, USA
    • Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

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• Developing the wave equation for self-consistent metric oscillations in plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 9:54 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 10:06 AM

  Authors

  • Deepen Garg

    • Princeton University

  • I. Y. Dodin

    • PPPL
    • Princeton University, PPPL

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• Weak Alfv\'{e}n wave collisions in relativistic plasma turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 10:06 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 10:18 AM

  Authors

  • Jason TenBarge

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Univ, and PPPL

  • Bart Ripperda

    • Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute / Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    • Princeton University

  • James Juno

    • University of Maryland

  • Alexander Chernoglazov

    • University of New Hampshire

  • Elias Most

    • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität

  • Alexander Philippov

    • Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute

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• Hard Synchrotron Spectra from Magnetically Dominated Plasma Turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 10:18 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 10:30 AM

  Authors

  • Luca Comisso

    • Columbia University

  • Emanuele Sobacchi

    • Columbia University

  • Lorenzo Sironi

    • Columbia University

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• A New C/O Plasma Melting Curve for White Dwarf Core Crystallization

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 10:30 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 10:42 AM

  Authors

  • Simon Blouin

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Jerome Daligault

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Didier Saumon

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Fireball beam formation and magnetization via plasma microinstabilities from first principles

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 10:42 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 10:54 AM

  Authors

  • Bertrand Martinez

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal

  • Thomas Grismayer

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal

  • Luis O. Silva

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal

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• Ab Initio vs Reduced Pair Production Models for Pair Discharges in Pulsar Magnetospheres

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 10:54 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 11:06 AM

  Authors

  • Fabio Cruz

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fus\~{a}o Nuclear, Instituto Superior T\'{e}cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Thomas Grismayer

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (GoLP)
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico

  • Luis O Silva

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

  • Alexander Y Chen

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

  • Anatoly Spitkovsky

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton NJ, 08544, USA
    • Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

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• Theory of plasma wakes driven by Compton scattering

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 11:06 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 11:18 AM

  Authors

  • Thomas Grismayer

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (GoLP)
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico

  • Fabrizio Del Gaudio

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

  • Ricardo Fonseca

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
    • ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute
    • Instituto Universitario de Lisboa

  • Luis O Silva

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

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• Gamma-ray flares in strongly radiative magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 11:18 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 11:30 AM

  Authors

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (GoLP)

  • Thomas Grismayer

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (GoLP)
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
    • University of Colorado at Boulder
    • University of Colorado
    • University of Boulder Colorado

  • Luis Silva

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (GoLP)

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• Magnetic Field Amplification by a Nonlinear Electron Streaming Instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 11:30 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • J. Ryan Peterson

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University

  • Siegfried Glenzer

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • Stanford Univ
    • SLAC
    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, 94025, California, USA

  • Frederico Fiuza

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • High Energy Density Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
    • SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
    • SLAC

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• New Thermal Conductivities for Warm Dense Matter and the Age of the Galaxy

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 11:42 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • Nathaniel Shaffer

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Simon Blouin

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Didier Saumon

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Charles Starrett

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Modelling Particle Acceleration in Kinetic Simulations of Relativistic Pair Plasma Turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 11:54 AM – Nov. 10, 2020, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • Kai Wong

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Vladimir Zhdankin

    • Princeton University

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Gregory Werner

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Mitchell Begelman

    • JILA

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• On the possibility of generating ultra-dense fireball pair beams at CERN

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 12:06 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • Charles Arrowsmith

    • University of Oxford

  • Robert Bingham

    • STFC RAL, University of Strathclyde

  • Tristan Davenne

    • STFC RAL

  • Nitin Shukla

    • IST Lisbon

  • Nikos Charitonidis

    • CERN

  • Yacine Kadi

    • CERN

  • Todd Huffman

    • University of Oxford

  • Brian Reville

    • MPIK

  • Scott Richardson

    • AWE

  • Hui Chen

    • LLNL

  • Luis Silva

    • IST Lisbon

  • Subir Sarkar

    • University of Oxford

  • Gianluca Gregori

    • University of Oxford

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• A Machine-Learned Orbital-Free Force-Correction Model: Extending the Thermodynamic Range of Affordable Kohn-Sham Level Accuracy

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 12:18 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 12:30 PM

  Authors

  • Joshua Hinz

    • Lab for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester ,

  • Valentin Karasiev

    • Lab for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester ,

  • Suxing Hu

    • Lab for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester ,

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