Interpenetrating plasma shells: near-equipartition magnetic field generation and non-thermal particle acceleration

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2003-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307500v1

Astrophys.J.596:L121-L124,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 4 figures (jpg), accepted for publication in ApJLett

Scientific paper

10.1086/379156

We present the first three-dimensional fully kinetic electromagnetic relativistic particle-in-cell simulations of the collision of two interpenetrating plasma shells. The highly accurate plasma-kinetic "particle-in-cell" (with the total of $10^8$ particles) parallel code OSIRIS has been used. Our simulations show: (i) the generation of long-lived near-equipartition (electro)magnetic fields, (ii) non-thermal particle acceleration, and (iii) short-scale to long-scale magnetic field evolution, in the collision region. Our results provide new insights into the magnetic field generation and particle acceleration in relativistic and sub-relativistic colliding streams of particles, which are present in gamma-ray bursters, supernova remnants, relativistic jets, pulsar winds, etc..

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