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Particle acceleration with Magnetic Reconnection in large scale RMHD simulations: I. Current sheet identification and characterization
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Submitted 26 May 2023
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The authors' main claim Despite the initial conditions of the simulations were not chosen "ad hoc", the 3D simulation returns results suitable for efficient particle acceleration and realistic non-thermal particle distributions.
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We present a new algorithm for the identification and physical characterization of current sheets and reconnection sites in 2D and 3D large scale relativisticmagnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations. This has been implemented in the PLUTO code and tested in the cases of a single current sheet, a 2D jet and a 3D unstable plasma column. Its main features are: a) a computational cost which allows its use in large scale simulations; b) the capability to deal with complex 2D and 3D structures of the reconnection sites. In the performed simulations, we identify the computational cells that are part of a current sheet by a measure of the gradient of the magnetic field along different directions. Lagrangian particles, which follow the fluid, are used to sample plasma parameters before entering the reconnection sites that form during the evolution of the different configurations considered. Specifically, we track the distributions of the magnetization parameter $\sigma$ and the thermal to magnetic pressure ratio $\beta$ that - according to particle-in-cell simulation results - control the properties of particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection regions. Despite the initial conditions of the simulations were not chosen "ad hoc", the 3D simulation returns results suitable for efficient particle acceleration and realistic non-thermal particle distributions.
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| s0 | We present a new algorithm for the identification and physical characterization of current sheets and reconnection sites in 2D and 3D large scale relativisticmagnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations. | contribution 1.00 | 0.95 | 0.07 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | This has been implemented in the PLUTO code and tested in the cases of a single current sheet, a 2D jet and a 3D unstable plasma column. | method 0.85 | 0.92 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | Its main features are: a) a computational cost which allows its use in large scale simulations; b) the capability to deal with complex 2D and 3D structures of the reconnection sites. | contribution 0.80 | 0.79 | 0.07 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | In the performed simulations, we identify the computational cells that are part of a current sheet by a measure of the gradient of the magnetic field along different directions. | method 1.00 | 0.96 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | Lagrangian particles, which follow the fluid, are used to sample plasma parameters before entering the reconnection sites that form during the evolution of the different configurations considered. | method 1.00 | 0.94 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | Specifically, we track the distributions of the magnetization parameter $\sigma$ and the thermal to magnetic pressure ratio $\beta$ that - according to particle-in-cell simulation results - control the properties of particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection regions. | method 0.93 | 0.76 | 0.08 | asserted 0.88 |
| s6 | Despite the initial conditions of the simulations were not chosen "ad hoc", the 3D simulation returns results suitable for efficient particle acceleration and realistic non-thermal particle distributions. | result 0.93 | 0.95 | 0.64 | asserted 0.99 |
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We present a new algorithm for the identification and physical characterization of current sheets and reconnection sites in 2D and 3D large scale relativisticmagnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations. This has been implemented in the PLUTO code and tested in the cases of a single current sheet, a 2D jet and a 3D unstable plasma column. Its main features are: a) a computational cost which allows its use in large scale simulations; b) the capability to deal with complex 2D and 3D structures of the reconnection sites. In the performed simulations, we identify the computational cells that are part of a current sheet by a measure of the gradient of the magnetic field along different directions. Lagrangian particles, which follow the fluid, are used to sample plasma parameters before entering the reconnection sites that form during the evolution of the different configurations considered. Specifically, we track the distributions of the magnetization parameter $\sigma$ and the thermal to magnetic pressure ratio $\beta$ that - according to particle-in-cell simulation results - control the properties of particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection regions. Despite the initial conditions of the simulations were not chosen "ad hoc", the 3D simulation returns results suitable for efficient particle acceleration and realistic non-thermal particle distributions.
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