Plasmoid statistics in relativistic magnetic reconnection

Petropoulou, M.; Christie, I. M.; Sironi, L.; Giannios, D.

doi:10.1093/mnras/sty033

Title: Plasmoid statistics in relativistic magnetic reconnection

Journal Article · 08 January 2018 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty033 · OSTI ID:1523832

^[1]; Christie, I. M. ^[2]; Sironi, L. ^[3]; Giannios, D. ^[2]

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)

Plasmoids, overdense blobs of plasma containing magnetic fields and high-energy particles, are a self-consistent outcome of the reconnection process in the relativistic regime. Recent two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations have shown that plasmoids can sustain a variety of processes (e.g. mergers, bulk acceleration, growth, and advection) within the reconnection layer. We developed a Monte Carlo code, benchmarked with the recent PIC simulations, to examine the effects of these processes on the steady-state size and momentum distributions of the plasmoid chain. The differential plasmoid size distribution is shown to be a power law, ranging from a few plasma skin depths to ~0.1 of the reconnection layer’s length. The power-law slope is shown to be linearly dependent upon the ratio of the plasmoid acceleration and growth rates, which slightly decreases with increasing plasma magnetization. We perform a detailed comparison of our results with those of recent PIC simulations and briefly discuss the astrophysical implications of our findings through the representative case of flaring events from blazar jets.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) (SC-24)

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OSTI ID:: 1523832

Journal Information:: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 475; ISSN 0035-8711

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