scholarly journals Publisher's Note: “Effects of a velocity shear on double current sheet systems: Explosive reconnection and particle acceleration” [Phys. Plasmas 28, 082903 (2021)]

2022 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 019901
Author(s):  
Arghyadeep Paul ◽  
Bhargav Vaidya
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Current Sheet ◽  
Velocity Shear

scholarly journals Hybrid numerical simulations of pulsar magnetospheres

2019 ◽  
Vol 491 (4) ◽  
pp. 5579-5585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Contopoulos ◽  
Jerome Pétri ◽  
Petros Stefanou
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Current Sheet ◽  
Electric Current ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Analytic Approximations ◽  
Polar Caps ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
Field Lines

ABSTRACT We continue our investigation of particle acceleration in the pulsar equatorial current sheet (ECS). Our basic premise has been that the charge carriers in the current sheet originate in the polar caps as electron–positron pairs, and are carried along field lines that enter the ECS beyond the magnetospheric Y-point. In this work, we investigate further the charge replenishment of the ECS. We discovered that the flow of pairs from the rims of the polar caps cannot supply both the electric charge and the electric current of the ECS. The ECS must contain an extra amount of positronic (or electronic depending on orientation) electric current that originates in the stellar surface and flows outwards along the separatrices. We develop an iterative hybrid approach that self-consistently combines ideal force-free electrodynamics in the bulk of the magnetosphere with particle acceleration along the ECS. We derive analytic approximations for the orbits of the particles, and obtain the structure of the pulsar magnetosphere for various values of the pair formation multiplicity parameter κ. For realistic values κ ≫ 1, the magnetosphere is practically indistinguishable from the ideal force-free one, and therefore, the calculation of the spectrum of high energy radiation must rely on analytic approximations for the distribution of the accelerating electric field in the ECS.

PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION IN SHEAR-FLOWS

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 1460195
Author(s):  
K.-I. NISHIKAWA ◽  
P. HARDEE ◽  
Y. MIZUNO ◽  
I. DUŢAN ◽  
B. ZHANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Lorentz Factor ◽  
Velocity Shear ◽  
Magnetic Field Generation ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
Relativistic Jet ◽  
Unmagnetized Plasma ◽  
Alternating Magnetic Fields ◽  
Transverse Deflection

We have investigated the generation of magnetic fields associated with velocity shear between an unmagnetized relativistic (core) jet and an unmagnetized sheath plasma by the kinetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability for different mass ratios (m i /m e = 1, 20, and 1836) and different jet Lorentz factors. We found that electron-positron cases have alternating magnetic fields instead of the DC magnetic fields found in electron-ion cases. We have also investigated particle acceleration and shock structure associated with an unmagnetized relativistic jet propagating into an unmagnetized plasma for electron-positron and electron-ion plasmas. Strong magnetic fields generated in the trailing shock lead to transverse deflection and acceleration of the electrons. We have self-consistently calculated the radiation from the electrons accelerated in the turbulent magnetic fields for different jet Lorentz factors. We find that the synthetic spectra depend on the bulk Lorentz factor of the jet, the jet temperature, and the strength of the magnetic fields generated in the shock.

Particle Acceleration Asymmetry in a Reconnecting Nonneutral Current Sheet

2004 ◽  
Vol 604 (2) ◽  
pp. 884-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina V. Zharkova ◽  
Mykola Gordovskyy
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Current Sheet

scholarly journals PIC Simulations of Excited Waves in the Plasmoid Instability

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Shahraki Pour ◽  
Mahboub Hosseinpour
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Solar Corona ◽  
Current Sheet ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Magnetic Energy ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Guide Field ◽  
Collisionless Regime ◽  
Accelerated Particles

Fragmentation of an elongated current sheet into many reconnection X-points, and therefore multiple plasmoids, occurs frequently in the solar corona. This speeds up the release of solar magnetic energy in the form of thermal and kinetic energy. Moreover, due to the presence of multiple reconnection X-points, the particle acceleration is more efficient in terms of the number of accelerated particles. This type of instability called “plasmoid instability” is accompanied with the excitation of some electrostatic/electromagnetic waves. We carried out 2D particle-in-cell simulations of this instability in the collisionless regime, with the presence of non-uniform magnetic guide field to investigate the nature of excited waves. It is shown that the nature and properties of waves excited inside and outside the current sheet are different. While the outside perturbations are transient, the inside ones are long-lived, and are directly affected by the plasmoid instability process.

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