Simulating particle acceleration within black hole magnetospheres

Project Information

SPAWN

Grant agreement ID: 863412

DOI

10.3030/863412

EC signature date 18 December 2019

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 330 322,00

EU contribution

€ 1 330 322,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Intra-pulse variability induced by plasmoid formation in pulsar magnetospheres

Author(s): I. Ceyhun Andaç, Benoît Cerutti, Guillaume Dubus, K. Yavuz Ekşi
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243152

Kinetic simulations and gamma-ray signatures of Klein–Nishina relativistic magnetic reconnection

Author(s): J Mehlhaff, G Werner, B Cerutti, D Uzdensky, M Begelman
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 527, 2024, Page(s) 11587-11626, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3863

Plasmoid identification and statistics in two-dimensional Harris sheet and GRMHD simulations

Author(s): J T Vos, H Olivares, B Cerutti, M Mościbrodzka
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 531, 2024, Page(s) 1554-1577, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1046

Synthetic gamma-ray light curves of Kerr black hole magnetospheric activity from particle-in-cell simulations

Author(s): Benjamin Crinquand; Benoît Cerutti; Guillaume Dubus; Kyle Parfrey; Alexander Philippov
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 12 volumes per year, 2021, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202040158

A kinetic study of black hole activation by local plasma injection into the inner magnetosphere

Author(s): Idan Niv, Omer Bromberg, Amir Levinson, Benoit Cerutti, Benjamin Crinquand
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 526, 2024, Page(s) 2709-2716, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2904

Composition-asymmetric and sheared relativistic magnetic reconnection

Author(s): Enzo Figueiredo, Benoît Cerutti, John Mehlhaff, Nicolas Scepi
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 690, 2024, Page(s) A389, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451229

Formation of giant plasmoids at the pulsar wind termination shock: A possible origin of the inner-ring knots in the Crab Nebula

Author(s): Benoît Cerutti, Gwenael Giacinti
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 12 volumes per year, 2021, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142178

Reconnection-driven flares in 3D black hole magnetospheres

Author(s): I. El Mellah, B. Cerutti, B. Crinquand
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 677, 2023, Page(s) A67, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346781

Scaling up global kinetic models of pulsar magnetospheres using a hybrid force-free-PIC numerical approach

Author(s): Adrien Soudais, Benoît Cerutti, Ioannis Contopoulos
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 690, 2024, Page(s) A170, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450238

Relativistic reconnection with effective resistivity

Author(s): M. Bugli, E. F. Lopresti, E. Figueiredo, A. Mignone, B. Cerutti, G. Mattia, L. Del Zanna, G. Bodo, V. Berta
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 693, 2025, Page(s) A233, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452277

Long-lived Equilibria in Kinetic Astrophysical Plasma Turbulence

Author(s): Mario Imbrogno, Claudio Meringolo, Sergio Servidio, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Benoît Cerutti, Francesco Pegoraro
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 972, 2024, Page(s) L5, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad6b9d

Enhanced particle acceleration in a pulsar wind interacting with a companion

Author(s): Valentina Richard-Romei, Benoît Cerutti
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 689, 2024, Page(s) A251, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450605

Magnetosphere, reconnection sheet, particle acceleration, and coronal heating

Author(s): Kyle Parfrey; Ileyk EL MELLAH; Benoit Cerutti; Benjamin Crinquand
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag

Synthetic Images of Magnetospheric Reconnection-Powered Radiation around Supermassive Black Holes.

Author(s): Benjamin Crinquand; Benoît Cerutti; Guillaume Dubus; Kyle Parfrey; Alexander Philippov
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2022, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.205101

Extreme ion acceleration at extragalactic jet termination shocks

Author(s): B. Cerutti; G. Giacinti
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.12636

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Hybrid magnetic structures around spinning black holes connected to a surrounding accretion disk

Author(s): I. El Mellah, B. Cerutti, B. Crinquand, K. Parfrey
Published in: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 184-189, ISSN 1743-9213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1743921322001715

Conference proceedings (1)

Particle acceleration at pulsar wind termination shocks revisited: shear, reconnection and giant plasmoids

Author(s): Benoît Cerutti, Gwenael Giacinti
Published in: Proceedings of 7th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy — PoS(Gamma2022), 2023, Page(s) 065
Publisher: Sissa Medialab
DOI: 10.22323/1.417.0065