Long-term Evolution of Relativistic Unmagnetized Collisionless Shocks

Long-term Evolution of Relativistic Unmagnetized Collisionless Shocks

We study a relativistic collisionless electron–positron shock propagating into an unmagnetized ambient medium using 2D particle-in-cell simulations of unprecedented duration and size. The shock generates intermittent magnetic structures of increasingly larger size as the simulation progresses. Towar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daniel Grošelj, Lorenzo Sironi, Anatoly Spitkovsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Subjects:
High energy astrophysics
Shocks
Non-thermal radiation sources
Plasma astrophysics
Gamma-ray bursts
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2c8c

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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2c8c

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