Particle acceleration in the driven relativistic reconnection

Yuri Lyubarsky; Michael Liverts

doi:10.1086/589640

Particle acceleration in the driven relativistic reconnection

Yuri Lyubarsky
, Michael Liverts

Department of Physics

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Abstract

We study compression-driven magnetic reconnection in a relativistic electron-positron plasma. Making use of a 2.5-dimensional particle-in-cell code, we simulated compression of a magnetized plasma layer containing a current sheet within it. We found that the particle spectrum within the reconnecting sheet becomes nonthermal; it can be approximated by a power-law distribution with an index of -1 and an exponential cutoff.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1436-1442
Number of pages	7
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	682
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/589640
State	Published - 1 Aug 2008

Keywords

Acceleration of particles
Magnetic fields
Plasmas

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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