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Motivated by the stellar wind ejected from the upper atmosphere (Corona) of a star, we explore a boundary problem of the two-species nonlinear relativistic Vlasov-Poisson systems in the 3D half space in the presence of a constant vertical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Jiaxin Jin , Chanwoo Kim

The orientation and stability of the reconnection x-line in asymmetric geometry is studied using three-dimensional (3D) particle-in-cell simulations. We initiate reconnection at the center of a large simulation domain to minimize the…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yi-Hsin Liu , Michael Hesse , Tak Chu Li , Masha Kuznetsova , Ari Le

Force-free electrodynamics describes the electromagnetic field of the magnetically dominated plasma found near pulsars and active black holes, but gives no information about the underlying particles that ultimately produce the observable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 Morifumi Mizuno , Samuel E. Gralla , Alexander Philippov

We study the dependence of the surface magnetic fields of radio pulsars on the choice of Equations of State, pulsar masses and the values of the angle between the magnetic axis and the spin axis of the pulsars within simple dipole model. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-26 Manjari Bagchi

The design of divertor targets and baffles for optimal heat and particle exhaust from magnetically confined fusion plasmas requires a combination of fast, low-fidelity models (such as EMC3-lite [1]) for scoping studies and high-fidelity…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 H. Frerichs , D. Boeyaert , Y. Feng , K. A. Garcia

We construct fully three-dimensional (3D) equilibria with pressure anisotropy and closed, nested toroidal magnetic surfaces that are strongly asymmetric in the toroidal direction by applying a sinusoidal perturbation to the axisymmetric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 D. A. Kaltsas , A. I. Kuiroukidis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

We present first results of three dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae. They show that the kink instability and magnetic dissipation inside these nebulae may be the key processes allowing to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Oliver Porth , Serguei S. Komissarov , Rony Keppens

We want to understand what drives magnetospheric dissipation in the equatorial current sheet. Numerical simulations have limitations and, unless we have a clear a priori understanding of the physical processes involved, their results can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-18 Ioannis Contopoulos

We study the emission patterns and light curves of gamma-rays in the pulsar magnetosphere with a current-induced magnetic field perturbation. Based on the solution of a static dipole with the magnetic field induced by some currents…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiang Li , Li Zhang

The electromagnetic inverse scattering problem (ISP), due to its inherent strong nonlinearity and severe ill-posedness, has long been a core challenge in microwave imaging. In recent years, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Shilong Sun

Abridged. Fast rotating and self-gravitating astrophysical objects suffer strong deformations from centrifugal forces. If moreover they are magnetized, they generate an electromagnetic wave that is perturbed accordingly. When stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-23 Jérôme Pétri

In this paper we consider stationary force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator when plasma in the open field line region rotates differentially due to presence of a zone with the accelerating electric field in the polar cap of pulsar.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Andrey Timokhin

We provide a valid magnetohydrostatic equilibrium from the collapse of a 2D X-point in the presence of a finite plasma pressure, in which the current density is not simply concentrated in an infinitesimally thin, one-dimensional current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-13 Jorge Fuentes-Fernández , Clare E. Parnell , Alan W. Hood

In this letter, we present the first 3D force-free general relativity simulations of the magnetosphere dynamics related to the magnetar outburst/flare phenomenology. Starting from an initial dipole configuration, we adiabatically increase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Federico Carrasco , Daniele Viganò , Carlos Palenzuela , Jose A. Pons

A technique is proposed for constructing three-dimensional solutions comlplying with the self-consistent magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equations and with observations along the line of sight of the magnetic field at the photosphere. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. V. Rudenko

Numerical computation of the ideal Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium magnetic field is at the base of stellarator optimisation and provides the starting point for solving more sophisticated Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) like…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Timo Thun , Rory Conlin , Dario Panici , Daniel Böckenhoff

Recent modeling of NICER observations of thermal X-ray pulsations from the surface of the isolated millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 suggests that the hot emitting regions on the pulsar's surface are far from antipodal, which is at odds…

The origins of the various outbursts of hard X-rays from magnetars (highly magnetized neutron stars) are still unknown. We identify instabilities in relativistic magnetospheres that can explain a range of X-ray flare luminosities. Crustal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , V. Mewes , B. Ripperda , E. R. Most , L. Sironi

A self-consistent electrodynamics of a particle accelerator in a rotating neutron-star magnetosphere is investigated on the two-dimensional poloidal plane. Solving the Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential together with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Hirotani

Solutions to the compressible Euler equations in all dimensions have been shown to develop finite-time singularities from smooth initial data such as shocks and cusps. There is an extraordinary list of results on this subject. When the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jiahong Wu , Fuyi Xu , Xiaoping Zhai
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