Astrophysical Plasma: Accretion Disks, Dynamos, Supernovae, and Cosmic Rays

Presentations

• Landau damping of magnetic fluctuations inhibit the dynamo in weakly collisional nonmagnetized plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 2:00 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Istvan Pusztai

    • Chalmers Univ Techn
    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • James Juno

    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland
    • Univ Maryland

  • Axel Brandenburg

    • NORDITA, KTH, and Stockholm Univ

  • Jason TenBarge

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Univ, and PPPL

  • Ammar Hakim

    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  • Manaure Francisquez

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
    • MIT

  • Andr\'eas Sundstr\"om

    • Chalmers Univ Techn

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• Identification of a novel non-axisymmetric mode in the Princeton Magnetorotational Instability Experiment

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 2:12 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Yin Wang

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Kyle Caspary

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Fatima Ebrahimi

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Erik Gilson

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Jeremy Goodman

    • Princeton University

  • Himawan Winarto

    • Princeton University

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• Intrinsic Gravitational~Ballooning Modes, and Associated Fields, Sustained by Black Hole Binaries (in parallel to GR Gravitational Waves)

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 2:24 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • B. Coppi

    • CNR of Italy, MIT
    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute for Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

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• Stretching, mixing, and tearing: Magnetic self-organization in high-resolution simulations of the turbulent dynamo in ${\rm \bf Pm > 1}$ plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 2:36 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Alisa Galishnikova

    • Princeton University

  • Matthew Kunz

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

  • Alexander Schekochihin

    • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University
    • University of Oxford

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• Extreme two-temperature plasmas in kinetic simulations of radiative relativistic turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 2:48 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Vladimir Zhdankin

    • Princeton University

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

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

  • Matthew Kunz

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

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• Efficient Particle Acceleration in Highly-Magnetized Kink-Unstable Jets.

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 3:00 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 3:12 PM

  Authors

  • 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

  • E. Paulo Alves

    • SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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• Bulk Comptonization by Reconnection Plasmoids in Black Hole Coronae

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 3:12 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 3:24 PM

  Authors

  • Navin Sridhar

    • Columbia University

  • Lorenzo Sironi

    • Columbia University
    • Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
    • American Physical Society

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• From Weibel instability to fluctuation dynamo in collisionless plasma simulations

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 3:24 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 3:36 PM

  Authors

  • Muni Zhou

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Vladimir Zhdankin

    • Princeton University

  • Matthew Kunz

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

  • Nuno Loureiro

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Kinetic Simulations of Relativistic Imbalanced Turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 3:36 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 3:48 PM

  Authors

  • Amelia Hankla

    • Univ. Colorado, Boulder; JILA

  • Vladimir Zhdankin

    • Princeton University

  • Gregory Werner

    • Univ. Colorado, Boulder; CIPS

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • Univ. Colorado, Boulder; CIPS

  • Mitchell Begelman

    • JILA

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• Nonlinear evolution of cosmic-ray driven instabilities

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 3:48 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Arno Vanthieghem

    • High Energy Density Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, 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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• Nonlinear streaming instability and super-diffusion of particles

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 4:00 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 4:12 PM

  Authors

  • Andrey Beresnyak

    • US NAVAL RESEARSCH LABORATORY

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• Small Grains, Hyper Impact: Frontier Science at the DIII-D Tokamak

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 4:12 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 4:24 PM

  Authors

  • Evdokiya Kostadinova

    • Baylor University

  • Dmitri Orlov

    • University of California, San Diego
    • General Atomics
    • University of California San Diego

  • I. Bykov

    • UCSD
    • University of California San Diego

  • Jens Schmidt

    • Baylor University, University of Stuttgart

  • Georg Herdrich

    • University of Stuttgart

  • Lorin Matthews

    • Baylor University

  • Truell Hyde

    • Baylor University
    • CASPER - Baylor University

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• Early emission from supernova explosions through dense porous shells

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 4:24 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 4:36 PM

  Authors

  • Shane Coffing

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • C.C. Kuranz

    • University of Michigan
    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    • U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • Nuclear Engineering \& Radiological Sciences Department, University of Michigan

  • Chris Fryer

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Electron energization in upstream of collisionless electron/ion shocks produced by interpenetrating plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 10, 2020, 4:36 PM – Nov. 10, 2020, 4:48 PM

  Authors

  • Neda Naseri

    • Middle Tennessee State University

  • Vladimir Khudik

    • The University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas Austin

  • Gennady Shvets

    • Cornell University

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