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Observational data require a rich variety of mechanisms to accelerate fast particles in astrophysical environments operating under different conditions. The mechanisms discussed in the literature include varying magnetic fields in compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-06 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Grzegorz Kowal

Turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysics. It radically changes many astrophysical phenomena, in particular, the propagation and acceleration of cosmic rays. We present the modern understanding of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Lazarian , L. Vlahos , G. Kowal , H. Yan , A. Beresnyak , E. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Fast magnetic reconnection may occur in different astrophysical sources, producing flare-like emission and particle acceleration. Currently, this process is being studied as an efficient mechanism to accelerate particles via a first-order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 M. V. del Valle , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Kowal

The theoretical prediction that magnetic reconnection spontaneously drives turbulence has been supported by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and kinetic simulations. While reconnection with externally driven turbulence is accepted as an effective…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Jian-Fu Zhang , Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian , Grzegorz Kowal

Astrophysical reconnection takes place in a turbulent medium. The turbulence in most cases is pre-existing, not caused by the reconnection itself. The model of magnetic reconnection in Lazarian & Vishniac (1999) predicts that in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-09 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , B. Gouveia dal Pino

Several MHD works and, in particular, the recent one by Medina-Torrejon et al. (2021) based on three-dimensional MHD simulations of relativistic jets, have evidenced that particle acceleration by magnetic reconnection driven by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Tania E. Medina-Torrejón , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Grzegorz Kowal

Astrophysical media are turbulent and therefore reconnection should be treated in the presence of pre-existing turbulence. We consider the model of fast magnetic reconnection in Lazarian & Vishniac (1999) which predicts that the rate of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , E. Gouveia dal Pino , E. Vishniac

The magnetic fields can change their topology through a process known as magnetic reconnection. This process in not only important for understanding the origin and evolution of the large-scale magnetic field, but is seen as a possibly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Grzegorz Kowal , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

The role of MHD turbulence in the cosmic ray acceleration process in a volume with a reconnecting magnetic field is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. We performed modelling of proton acceleration with the 3D analytic model of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomasz Kobak , Michal Ostrowski

3D Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) resistive simulations have highlighted the significance of ubiquitous turbulence to drive fast reconnection. It has been demonstrated that particle acceleration via reconnection in 3D magnetized flows, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , J. C. Ramirez-Rodriguez , T. Medina-Torrejon , G. H. Vicentin , L. Passos Reis

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is an important agent of energetic particle acceleration. Focusing on the compressible properties of magnetic turbulence, we adopt test particle method to study the particle acceleration from Alfv\'en,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Jianfu Zhang , Fuyuan Xiang

Our numerical simulations show that the reconnection of magnetic field becomes fast in the presence of weak turbulence in the way consistent with the Lazarian and Vishniac (1999) model of fast reconnection. We trace particles within our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , E. Vishniac , E. de Gouveia dal Pino

Cosmic Ray (CR) acceleration still challenges the researchers. Fast particles may be accelerated in astrophysical environments by a variety of processes. Acceleration in magnetic reconnection sites in particular, has lately attracted the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-21 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Grzegorz Kowal , Alex Lazarian

This work provides a concrete implementation of E. Fermi's model of particle acceleration in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, connecting the rate of energization to the gradients of the velocity of magnetic field lines, which it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Martin Lemoine

The ubiquitous turbulence in astrophysical plasmas is important for both magnetic reconnection and reconnection acceleration. We study the particle acceleration during fast 3D turbulent reconnection with reconnection-driven turbulence.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

We discuss the phenomenon of energization of relativistic charged particles in three-dimensional (3D) incompressible MHD turbulence and the diffusive properties of the motion of the same particles. We show that the random electric field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-05 Oreste Pezzi , Pasquale Blasi , William H. Matthaeus

We numerically investigate a crucial parameter for understanding particle acceleration theory via turbulence-induced magnetic reconnection: the particle acceleration time. We examine particles accelerated either during the jet's dynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Tania E. Medina-Torrejon

Magnetic reconnection is thought to be the driver for many explosive phenomena in the universe. The energy release and particle acceleration during reconnection have been proposed as a mechanism for producing high-energy emissions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-10 Fan Guo , Yi-Hsin Liu , William Daughton , Hui Li

There is no single mechanism by which fast particles are accelerated in astrophysical environments, and it is now recognized that the data require a rich variety of different mechanisms operating under different conditions. The mechanisms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-15 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Grzegorz Kowal , Alex Lazarian , Reinaldo Santos-Lima

Nonthermal acceleration of particles in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a central role in a wide variety of astrophysical sites. This physics is addressed here in the context of a strong turbulence, composed of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-06 Martin Lemoine
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