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Electron-scale shear instabilities: magnetic field generation and particle acceleration in astrophysical jets

  • Authors: E P Alves, T Grismayer, R A Fonseca, L O Silva

E P Alves 2014 New Journal of Physics 16 035007.

  • Provider: IOP Publishing
Caption: Figure 13.

Evolution of the electron phasespace (insets a1–3 and b1–3) and DC magnetic field peak (insets a4 and b4); log–log is used to display linear DC peak evolution in inset a4, and log–linear is used to display exponential evolution in inset b4. Left: 1D warm shear flow with ﹩{{v}_{0}}=0.2c﹩ and ﹩{{v}_{th}}=0.016c﹩. Right: 2D cold shear flow for the same ﹩{{v}_{0}}﹩. The blue (red) color represents the electrons with a negative (positive) drift velocity ﹩{{v}_{0}}﹩. The self-consistent DC magnetic field is represented by the solid curve, whereas the dashed curve represents the magnetic field given by the theoretical model.

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