A first-principle model for polarization swings during reconnection-powered flares
We show that magnetic reconnection in a magnetically dominated fast-cooling plasma can naturally produce bright flares accompanied by rotations in the synchrotron polarization vector. With particle-in-cell simulations of reconnection, we find that flares are powered by efficient particle acceleratio...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2020
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