Mini-Conference on Reconnection: Astrophysics

Presentations

• Relativistic magnetic reconnection in plasmas around black holes and neutron stars

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 9:30 AM – Nov. 11, 2020, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Sasha Philippov

    • Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Astrophysics
    • Flatiron Institute

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• Magnetic reconnection in pulsar magnetospheres, winds and nebulae

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 10:00 AM – Nov. 11, 2020, 10:25 AM

  Authors

  • Benoit Cerutti

    • CNRS & Univ. Grenoble Alpes

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• Magnetic Reconnection under Extreme Astrophysical Plasma Conditions

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 10:25 AM – Nov. 11, 2020, 10:50 AM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

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

  • John Mehlhaff

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Gregory Werner

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
    • University of Colorado

  • Mitchell Begelman

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
    • JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder

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• The Dominant Acceleration Mechanism and Formation of Power-law Particle Energy Spectra in Spontaneous, Turbulent and Forced Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 10:50 AM – Nov. 11, 2020, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Fan Guo

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

  • Xiaocan Li

    • Dartmouth College

  • Yingchao Lu

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Hui Li

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • William Daughton

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Patrick Kilian

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • Dartmouth College

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• Radiative Relativistic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 11:15 AM – Nov. 11, 2020, 11:40 AM

  Authors

  • Lorenzo Sironi

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

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• Role of magnetic reconnection in accelerating particles in magnetically dominated turbulent plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 11:40 AM – Nov. 11, 2020, 11:58 AM

  Authors

  • Luca Comisso

    • Columbia University

  • Lorenzo Sironi

    • Columbia University

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• Power-law index of energy spectrum in magnetically dominated systems

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 11:58 AM – Nov. 11, 2020, 12:16 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaocan Li

    • Dartmouth Coll

  • Fan Guo

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

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • Dartmouth College
    • Dartmouth Coll

  • Patrick Kilian

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Hui Li

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Nature of Fluctuations and Turbulence in 3D Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 12:16 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 12:34 PM

  Authors

  • Hui Li

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Liping Yang

    • Space Weather Laboratory, China

  • Senbei Du

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Xiaocan Li

    • Dartmouth College

  • Fan Guo

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

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