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A kinetic particle-in-cell simulation and 3D point-rendering visualisation are used to investigate a two-stream plasma instability, possibly found in the accretion disc of black holes. A plasma in an oblique external magnetic field is considered. The instability gives rise to a quasi-electrostatic wave able to trap electrons and accelerate them by cross-field transport. The results of the simulation show an acceleration of the electrons to speeds similar to the bulk speed of microquasar jets.
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Parviainen, M.J., Dieckmann, M.E., Shukla, P.K. (2007). Phase Space Modulations in Magnetised Plasmas by a Mildly Relativistic Two-Stream Instability. In: Kågström, B., Elmroth, E., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. State of the Art in Scientific Computing. PARA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_44
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