Magnetic reconnection in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas

EG Zweibel, M Yamada - Annual review of astronomy and …, 2009‏ - annualreviews.org
Magnetic reconnection is a topological rearrangement of magnetic field that converts
magnetic energy to plasma energy. Astrophysical flares, from the Earth's magnetosphere to …

Pinch sheets and reconnection in astrophysics

SI Syrovatskii - In: Annual review of astronomy and …, 1981‏ - adsabs.harvard.edu
Magnetic reconnection processes involving the formation and destruction of pinch current
sheets in plasma are a universal phenomenon typical of both laboratory and space plasmas …

Particle acceleration in the magnetotail and aurora

J Birn, AV Artemyev, DN Baker, M Echim… - Space science …, 2012‏ - Springer
This paper deals with acceleration processes in the magnetotail and the processes that
enhance particle precipitation from the tail into the ionosphere through electric fields in the …

On the problems of relativistic laboratory astrophysics and fundamental physics with super powerful lasers

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, M Kando, J Koga… - Plasma Physics …, 2015‏ - Springer
The ways toward modeling of astrophysical processes and extreme field regimes with super-
power lasers are discussed. The main attention is paid to the problem of limited similarity in …

Thin current sheets in collisionless plasma: Equilibrium structure, plasma instabilities, and particle acceleration

LM Zelenyi, HV Malova, AV Artemyev, VY Popov… - Plasma Physics …, 2011‏ - Springer
The review is devoted to plasma structures with an extremely small transverse size, namely,
thin current sheets that have been discovered and investigated by spacecraft observations …

Sha** of the magnetotail from the mantle: Global and local structuring

M Ashour‐Abdalla, JP Berchem… - Journal of …, 1993‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper discusses kinetic modeling of the properties of magnetotail formation from a
plasma mantle source and develops a unified view of the structure of the central part of the …

Nonthermal particles and photons in starburst regions and superbubbles

AM Bykov - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2014‏ - Springer
Starforming factories in galaxies produce compact clusters and loose associations of young
massive stars. Fast radiation-driven winds and supernovae input their huge kinetic power …

Relativistic laser-matter interaction and relativistic laboratory astrophysics

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, D Habs, F Pegoraro… - The European Physical …, 2009‏ - Springer
The paper is devoted to the prospects of using the laser radiation interaction with plasmas in
the laboratory relativistic astrophysics context. We discuss the dimensionless parameters …

High density collimated beams of relativistic ions produced by petawatt laser pulses in plasmas

Y Sentoku, TV Liseikina, TZ Esirkepov, F Califano… - Physical Review E, 2000‏ - APS
Under optimal interaction conditions ions can be accelerated up to relativistic energies by a
petawatt laser pulse in both underdense and overdense plasmas. Two-dimensional particle …

Collisionless magnetic reconnection in space plasmas

RA Treumann, W Baumjohann - Frontiers in Physics, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
Magnetic reconnection, the merging of oppositely directed magnetic fields that leads to field
reconfiguration, plasma heating, jetting and acceleration, is one of the most celebrated …