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Published on: March 3, 2017
Collisionless Magnetorotational Turbulence in Pair Plasmas: Steady-State Dynamics, Particle Acceleration, and
Fabio Bacchini1,2, Vladimir Zhdankin3,4, Evgeny A Gorbunov1
1Centre for Mathematical Plasma Astrophysics, Department of Mathematics, <a href="https://ror.org/05f950310">KU Leuven</a>, Celestijnenlaan 200B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.
Abstract:
We present 3D fully kinetic shearing-box simulations of pair-plasma magnetorotational turbulence with unprecedented macro-to-microscopic scale separation. While retrieving the expected fluid behavior of the plasma at large scales, we observe a steepening of turbulent spectra at kinetic scales and substantial angular-momentum transport linked with kinetic processes. For the first time, we provide a definitive demonstration of nonthermal particle acceleration in kinetic magnetorotational turbulence agnostically of shearing-box initial conditions by means of a novel strategy exploiting synchrotron cooling.
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