Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments

H Ji, W Daughton, J Jara-Almonte, A Le… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Astrophysical plasmas have the remarkable ability to preserve magnetic topology, which
inevitably gives rise to the accumulation of magnetic energy within stressed regions …

BepiColombo science investigations during cruise and flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury

V Mangano, M Dósa, M Fränz, A Milillo… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
The dual spacecraft mission BepiColombo is the first joint mission between the European
Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to explore …

Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

C Dong, L Wang, YM Huang, L Comisso… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence regulates the transfer of energy from large to small scales
in many astrophysical systems, including the solar atmosphere. We perform three …

Particle acceleration in relativistic plasma turbulence

L Comisso, L Sironi - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Due to its ubiquitous presence, turbulence is often invoked to explain the origin of
nonthermal particles in astrophysical sources of high-energy emission. With particle-in-cell …

Cosmic ray transport in large-amplitude turbulence with small-scale field reversals

P Kempski, DB Fielding, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The nature of cosmic ray (CR) transport in the Milky Way remains elusive. The predictions of
current microphysical CR transport models in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are …

MHD turbulence: a biased review

AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This review of scaling theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence aims to put the
developments of the last few years in the context of the canonical time line (from Kolmogorov …

Reconnection-controlled decay of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the role of invariants

DN Hosking, AA Schekochihin - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We present a new theoretical picture of magnetically dominated, decaying turbulence in the
absence of a mean magnetic field. With direct numerical simulations, we demonstrate that …

[HTML][HTML] Transition from ion-coupled to electron-only reconnection: Basic physics and implications for plasma turbulence

P Sharma Pyakurel, MA Shay, TD Phan… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Using 2.5 dimensional kinetic particle-in-cell simulations, we simulate reconnection
conditions appropriate for the magnetosheath and solar wind, ie, plasma beta (ratio of gas …

Spectrum of kinetic-Alfvén-wave turbulence: intermittency or tearing mediation?

M Zhou, Z Liu, NF Loureiro - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the spectral properties of the electromagnetic fluctuations of sub-ion scale
turbulence in weakly collisional, low-beta plasmas using a two-field isothermal gyrofluid …

The acceleration of charged particles and formation of power-law energy spectra in nonrelativistic magnetic reconnection

X Li, F Guo, YH Liu - Physics of Plasmas, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetic reconnection is a primary driver of particle acceleration processes in space and
astrophysical plasmas. Understanding how particles are accelerated and the resulting …