Simulations of radiatively cooled magnetic reconnection driven by pulsed power

R Datta, A Crilly, JP Chittenden, S Chowdhry… - Journal of Plasma …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Magnetic reconnection is an important process in astrophysical environments, as it
reconfigures magnetic field topology and converts magnetic energy into thermal and kinetic …

Synchrotron-driven instabilities in relativistic plasmas of arbitrary opacity

IE Ochs - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent work has shown that synchrotron emission from relativistic plasmas leads the
electron distribution to form an anisotropic ring in momentum space, which can be unstable …