Particle acceleration in the driven relativistic reconnection
| Autor: | Lyubarsky, Yuri, Liverts, Michael |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1086/589640 |
| Popis: | We study the compression driven magnetic reconnection in the relativistic electron-positron plasma. Making use of a 2.5D 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 non-thermal; it could be approximated by a power-law distribution with an index of -1 and an exponential cutoff. Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the ApJ August 10, 2008, v683n 1 issue |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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