Local two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of the collisionless magnetorotational instability

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 755, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Riquelme, Mario A ^a   Quataert, Eliot ^a   Sharma, Prateek ^b   Spitkovsky, Anatoly ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accretion; accretion disks; dynamo; magnetic fields; plasmas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864446992     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/50     Document Type: Article

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