Wine and Cheese Spring 2015
This page records the schedule, titles and abstracts of the JHU/STScI CAS Astrophysics Wine & Cheese Series in Spring 2015.
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26 Jan 2015
Ingyin Zaw
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Naoki Bessho
Particle acceleration during magnetic reconnection in ultrarelativistic electron-positron plasmas
In pulsar winds and jets from AGNs, plasma is considered to be composed of ultrarelativistic electrons and positrons with their Lorentz factors 10^3 to 10^6. How these high energy particles are produced is an open question, and magnetic reconnection is one of mechanisms to accelerate particles. We study magnetic reconnection in ultrarelativistic electron-positron plasmas by means of 2-D simulations that include kinetics of particle motion, and investigate particle acceleration mechanisms and energy spectra of accelerated particles.
02 Feb 2015
Marius Millea
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Colin Hill
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09 Feb 2015
Rongmon Bordoloi
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23 Mar 2015
Kendrick Smith
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04 May 2015
Agnieszka Cieplak
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