The extent of power-law energy spectra in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasma

Werner, G. R.; Uzdensky, D. A.; Cerutti, B.; Nalewajko, K.; Begelman, M. C.

doi:10.3847/2041-8205/816/1/L8

Title: The extent of power-law energy spectra in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasma

Abstract

Using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we characterize the energy spectra of particles accelerated by relativistic magnetic reconnection (without guide field) in collisionless electron–positron plasmas, for a wide range of upstream magnetizations σ and system sizes L. The particle spectra are well-represented by a power law $${\gamma }^{-\alpha }$$, with a combination of exponential and super-exponential high-energy cutoffs, proportional to σ and L, respectively. As a result, for large L and σ, the power-law index α approaches about 1.2.

Authors:

Werner, G. R. ^[1]; Uzdensky, D. A. ^[1]; Cerutti, B. ^[2]; Nalewajko, K. ^[3]; Begelman, M. C. ^[4]

Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
Univ. of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Univ. of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1261075

Report Number(s):: SLAC-PUB-16599
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-8213; arXiv:1409.8262

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online); Journal Volume: 816; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-8213

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; astrophysics; ASTRO; acceleration of particles; galaxies: jets; gamma-ray burst: general; magnetic reconnection; pulsars: general; relativistic processes

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                    Werner, G. R., Uzdensky, D. A., Cerutti, B., Nalewajko, K., and Begelman, M. C. The extent of power-law energy spectra in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasma.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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                    Werner, G. R., Uzdensky, D. A., Cerutti, B., Nalewajko, K., & Begelman, M. C. The extent of power-law energy spectra in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasma.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/816/1/L8

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                    Werner, G. R., Uzdensky, D. A., Cerutti, B., Nalewajko, K., and Begelman, M. C. Wed .  
"The extent of power-law energy spectra in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasma".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/816/1/L8.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1261075.

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  title        = {The extent of power-law energy spectra in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasma},

  author       = {Werner, G. R. and Uzdensky, D. A. and Cerutti, B. and Nalewajko, K. and Begelman, M. C.},

  abstractNote = {Using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we characterize the energy spectra of particles accelerated by relativistic magnetic reconnection (without guide field) in collisionless electron–positron plasmas, for a wide range of upstream magnetizations σ and system sizes L. The particle spectra are well-represented by a power law ${\gamma }^{-\alpha }$, with a combination of exponential and super-exponential high-energy cutoffs, proportional to σ and L, respectively. As a result, for large L and σ, the power-law index α approaches about 1.2.},

  doi          = {10.3847/2041-8205/816/1/L8},

  journal      = {The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 816,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2015},

  month        = {Wed Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2015}

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text, January 2016

Guo, Fan; Li, Hui; Daughton, William
arXiv
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text, January 2017

Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.
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Plasmoid statistics in relativistic magnetic reconnection
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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01910

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Particle acceleration in the driven relativistic reconnection text, January 2008

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Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula
journal, January 2011

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journal, April 2012

Plasma self-heating and saturation due to numerical instabilities
journal, June 1980

Extreme Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection Layers: Application to the Gamma-Ray Flares in the crab Nebula
journal, February 2012

Beaming and Rapid Variability of High-Energy Radiation from Relativistic pair Plasma Reconnection
journal, July 2012

Simulations of Particle Acceleration Beyond the Classical Synchrotron Burnoff Limit in Magnetic Reconnection: an Explanation of the crab Flares
journal, June 2013

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journal, May 2014

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journal, February 2014

Magnetically striped relativistic magnetohydrodynamic winds - The Crab Nebula revisited
journal, January 1990

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journal, September 2014

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journal, October 2006

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journal, August 2002

Spectral and timing properties of a dissipative $\vec\gamma$-ray burst photosphere
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Fast TeV variability in blazars: jets in a jet
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Formation of Hard Power Laws in the Energetic Particle Spectra Resulting from Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection
journal, October 2014

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journal, September 2012

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Dissipation in Poynting‐Flux–dominated Flows: The σ‐Problem of the Crab Pulsar Wind
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Lepton Acceleration by Relativistic Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
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Particle energization in 3D magnetic reconnection of relativistic pair plasmas
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Scaling of Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Collisionless Pair Plasmas
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Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains
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Reconnection-Powered Linear Accelerator and Gamma-Ray Flares in the crab Nebula
journal, August 2011

Fast Magnetic Reconnection in the Plasmoid-Dominated Regime
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Physical Conditions in the Reconnection Layer in Pulsar Magnetospheres
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The Generation of Nonthermal Particles in the Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection of Pair Plasmas
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Relativistic Particle Acceleration in a Folded Current Sheet
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Particle Acceleration and Magnetic Dissipation in Relativistic Current Sheet of Pair Plasmas
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text, January 2010

Particle Energization in 3D Magnetic Reconnection of Relativistic Pair Plasmas
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Phase Diagram for Magnetic Reconnection in Heliophysical, Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
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Beaming and rapid variability of high-energy radiation from relativistic pair plasma reconnection
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text, January 2014

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text, January 2014

Formation of Hard Power-laws in the Energetic Particle Spectra Resulting from Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection
text, January 2014

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text, January 2014

Reconnection in a striped pulsar wind
text, January 2000

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text, January 2001

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text, January 2003

Magnetoluminescence
book, January 2017

Magnetoluminescence
journal, June 2017

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journal, November 2019

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journal, May 2016

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journal, August 2018

3D turbulent reconnection: Theory, tests, and astrophysical implications
journal, January 2020

Plasmoid statistics in relativistic magnetic reconnection
journal, January 2018

Radiative signatures of plasmoid-dominated reconnection in blazar jets
journal, October 2018

The steady growth of the high-energy spectral cut-off in relativistic magnetic reconnection
journal, October 2018

Marginally fast cooling synchrotron models for prompt GRBs
journal, February 2018

Physics of the saturation of particle acceleration in relativistic magnetic reconnection
journal, February 2018

Interpreting Crab Nebula’s synchrotron spectrum: two acceleration mechanisms
journal, August 2019

Interplasmoid Compton scattering and the Compton dominance of BL Lacs
journal, December 2019

Particle acceleration in relativistic magnetic reconnection with strong inverse-Compton cooling in pair plasmas
journal, August 2018

Ab-initio Pulsar Magnetosphere: Particle Acceleration in Oblique Rotators and High-energy Emission Modeling
journal, March 2018

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