Stix Award: Extreme Plasmas around Neutron Stars and Black Holes

ORAL  · Invited

Abstract

In this talk, I will review recent advances in relativistic plasma physics. I will focus on the first-principles mechanisms of producing coherent radio emission from neutron stars and the dynamics of collisionless plasma accreting onto supermassive black holes in our galaxy and M87 (the primary targets of the Event Horizon Telescope).

*This research is supported by Simons Foundation (Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources, SCEECS, grant No. 00001470) and facilitated by NSF's Multi-messenger Plasma Physics Center (MPPC, NSF Grant No. PHY-2206607).

Presenters

  • Alexander A Philippov

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

Authors

  • Alexander A Philippov

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