Particle acceleration by magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Mechanism for flares in black hole accretion flows
We study the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability in relativistic collisionless plasma, as an astrophysical process for nonthermal particle acceleration. We consider dense plasma on top of a highly magnetized cavity with sheared magnetic field. Using particle-in-cell simulations, we show that small...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2023-10-01
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Series: | Physical Review Research |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043023 |