Plasmoids in relativistic reconnection, from birth to adulthood: first they grow, then they go

Relativistic jets shine through shocks or magnetic reconnection?

(2015) Lorenzo Sironi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Particle acceleration in axisymmetric pulsar current sheets

(2015) Benoît Cerutti et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

PICsar: A 2.5D axisymmetric, relativistic, electromagnetic, Particle in Cell code with a radiation absorbing boundary

(2015) Mikhail A. Belyaev   NEW ASTRONOMY

Scaling of Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Collisionless Pair Plasmas

(2015) Yi-Hsin Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Pair Plasmas and Its Astrophysical Applications

(2015) D. Kagan et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

The energetics of relativistic magnetic reconnection: ion-electron repartition and particle distribution hardness

(2014) Mickaël Melzani et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THREE-DIMENSIONAL RELATIVISTIC PAIR PLASMA RECONNECTION WITH RADIATIVE FEEDBACK IN THE CRAB NEBULA

(2014) B. Cerutti et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

RELATIVISTIC RECONNECTION: AN EFFICIENT SOURCE OF NON-THERMAL PARTICLES

(2014) Lorenzo Sironi et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Formation of Hard Power Laws in the Energetic Particle Spectra Resulting from Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

(2014) Fan Guo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A FLUX ROPE NETWORK AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL RELATIVISTIC MAGNETIC RECONNECTION

(2013) Daniel Kagan et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

EVOLUTION OF RELATIVISTIC PLASMOID CHAINS IN A POYNTING-DOMINATED PLASMA

(2013) Makoto Takamoto   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SIMULATIONS OF PARTICLE ACCELERATION BEYOND THE CLASSICAL SYNCHROTRON BURNOFF LIMIT IN MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: AN EXPLANATION OF THE CRAB FLARES

(2013) B. Cerutti et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE MAXIMUM ENERGY OF ACCELERATED PARTICLES IN RELATIVISTIC COLLISIONLESS SHOCKS

(2013) Lorenzo Sironi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Reconnection-driven plasmoids in blazars: fast flares on a slow envelope

(2013) Dimitrios Giannios   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The plasmoid instability during asymmetric inflow magnetic reconnection

(2013) Nicholas A. Murphy et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

GAMMA-RAY ACTIVITY IN THE CRAB NEBULA: THE EXCEPTIONAL FLARE OF 2011 APRIL

(2012) R. Buehler et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

FAST MAGNETIC RECONNECTION AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN RELATIVISTIC LOW-DENSITY ELECTRON-POSITRON PLASMAS WITHOUT GUIDE FIELD

(2012) Naoki Bessho et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

BEAMING AND RAPID VARIABILITY OF HIGH-ENERGY RADIATION FROM RELATIVISTIC PAIR PLASMA RECONNECTION

(2012) B. Cerutti et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Distribution of Plasmoids in High-Lundquist-Number Magnetic Reconnection

(2012) Yi-Min Huang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas

(2012) N. F. Loureiro et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

ACCELERATION OF PARTICLES AT THE TERMINATION SHOCK OF A RELATIVISTIC STRIPED WIND

(2011) Lorenzo Sironi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Particle energization in 3D magnetic reconnection of relativistic pair plasmas

(2011) Wei Liu et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula

(2011) A. A. Abdo et al.   SCIENCE

PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN RELATIVISTIC MAGNETIZED COLLISIONLESS ELECTRON-ION SHOCKS

(2010) Lorenzo Sironi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Fast TeV variability from misaligned minijets in the jet of M87

(2010) Dimitrios Giannios et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Fast Magnetic Reconnection in the Plasmoid-Dominated Regime

(2010) D. A. Uzdensky et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A statistical model of magnetic islands in a current layer

(2010) R. L. Fermo et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Fast magnetic reconnection in low-density electron-positron plasmas

(2010) Naoki Bessho et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN RELATIVISTIC MAGNETIZED COLLISIONLESS PAIR SHOCKS: DEPENDENCE OF SHOCK ACCELERATION ON MAGNETIC OBLIQUITY

(2009) Lorenzo Sironi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Prompt GRB emission from gradual energy dissipation

(2008) D. Giannios   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Particle Acceleration in the Driven Relativistic Reconnection

(2008) Yuri Lyubarsky et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The Role of the Guide Field in Relativistic Pair Plasma Reconnection

(2008) S. Zenitani et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The power of blazar jets

(2008) Annalisa Celotti et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in Large-Scale Pair Plasmas

(2008) L. Yin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS