Relativistic Particle Acceleration in a Folded Current Sheet

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2004-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411373v2

Astrophys.J. 618 (2004) L111-L114

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 preprint pages, including 3 .eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/427873

Two-dimensional particle simulations of a relativistic Harris current sheet of pair plasmashave demonstrated that the system is unstable to the relativistic drift kink instability (RDKI) and that a new kind of acceleration process takes place in the deformed current sheet. This process contributes to the generation of non-thermal particles and contributes to the fast magnetic dissipation in the current sheet structure. The acceleration mechanism and a brief comparison with relativistic magnetic reconnection are presented.

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