Plasma Astrophysics

Presentations

• On the width of a collisionless shock and the index of the cosmic rays it accelerates

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 9:30 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 9:42 AM

  Publication: Bret & Pe'er, arXiv:2405.08155, to appear in ApJ

  Presenters

  • Antoine Bret

    • Univ de Castilla-La Mancha

  Authors

  • Antoine Bret

    • Univ de Castilla-La Mancha

  • Asaf Pe'er

    • Bar Ilan University

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• Parallel electrostatic collisionless shocks in hot-cold ablative mixing plasmas

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 9:42 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 9:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Yanzeng Zhang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Yanzeng Zhang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Xianzhu Tang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

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• Understanding the Breakdown of the Bell Instability in the Limit of High Cosmic Ray Current Density

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 9:54 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 10:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Emily R Lichko

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Emily R Lichko

    • University of Chicago

  • Damiano Caprioli

    • University of Chicago

  • Benedikt Schroer

    • University of Chicago

  • Siddhartha Gupta

    • University of Chicago

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• Kinetic Simulations of Strong Nonrelativistic Shocks Propagating in a Turbulent Medium

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 10:06 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 10:18 AM

  Publication: Karol Fulat et al 2023 ApJ 959 119, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad04dc

  Presenters

  • Karol Fulat

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison / SCEECS

  Authors

  • Karol Fulat

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison / SCEECS

  • Artem Bohdan

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik / Excellence Cluster ORIGINS

  • Martin K.W. Pohl

    • University of Postdam / DESY

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• Energy transfer across scales in a non-ideal shock: the role of pressure-dilatation

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 10:18 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 10:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Dina Soltani Tehrani

    • University of Rochester

  Authors

  • Dina Soltani Tehrani

    • University of Rochester

  • Hussein Aluie

    • University of Rochester

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• Plasma Dynamics and Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in 3D Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 10:30 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 10:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Fan Guo

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Fan Guo

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Qile Zhang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • William S Daughton

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Xiaocan Li

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Hui Li

    • LANL

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• Particle-in-cell study of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 10:42 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 10:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    • Ruhr Universität Bochum

  Authors

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    • Ruhr Universität Bochum

  • Björn Eichmann

    • Ruhr Universitaet Bochum

  • Fulvia Pucci

    • Princeton University

  • Maria Elena Innocenti

    • Ruhr Universitaet Bochum

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• Large-system behavior of the nonlinear drift-kink instability in relativistic pair plasma

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 10:54 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 11:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Gregory R Werner

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Gregory R Werner

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ. Colorado

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• Particle Injection in 3D Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 11:06 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 11:18 AM

  Publication: Particle Injection in 3D Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection. Omar French, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, In preparation for submission to the Astrophysical Journal (expected Fall 2024).

  Presenters

  • Omar J French

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Omar J French

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Gregory R Werner

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ. Colorado

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• Application of Mesh-refinement for Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 11:18 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 11:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Revathi Jambunathan

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Revathi Jambunathan

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Henry Jones

    • (Intern) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Lizzette Corrales

    • Cornell University

  • Hannah E Klion

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Michael E Rowan

    • Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

  • Andrew Myers

    • LBNL

  • Remi Lehe

    • LBNL

  • Jean-Luc Vay

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Weiqun Zhang

    • LBNL

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• Conditions for relativistic magnetic reconnection onset under the presence of shear flows and a guide field

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 11:30 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 11:42 AM

  Publication: Conditions for Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection under the Presence of Shear Flow and Guide Field, Peery, S., Liu, Y.-H., & Li, X. 2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 964, 144, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad24e8

  Presenters

  • Sarah Peery

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Sarah Peery

    • Dartmouth College

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • Dartmouth College

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• Cosmic Ray Diffusion in Turbulent Magnetic Fields

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 11:42 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 11:54 AM

  Publication: Chao Zhang and Siyao Xu 2023 ApJL 959 L8 arXiv:2311.18001
  Chao Zhang and Siyao Xu 2024 submitted arXiv:2406.03542

  Presenters

  • Chao Zhang

    • University of Florida

  Authors

  • Chao Zhang

    • University of Florida

  • Siayo Xu

    • University of Florida

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• Particle acceleration by relativistic Alfvénic turbulence in a strong magnetic field

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 11:54 AM – Oct. 9, 2024, 12:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Stanislav A Boldyrev

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Stanislav A Boldyrev

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Cristian Santiago Vega

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Vadim S Roytershteyn

    • Space Science Institute

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• Data-driven statistical model of nonthermal particle acceleration by the kink instability in relativistic jets

  ORAL

  Oct. 9, 2024, 12:06 PM – Oct. 9, 2024, 12:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Samuel Degen

    • University of California Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Samuel Degen

    • University of California Los Angeles

  • Gabrielle Guttormsen

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Frederico Fiuza

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (Portugal)
    • IST University of Lisbon

  • Paulo Alves

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • UCLA

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