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SUMMARY:Making Reconnection Cooler: Modelling bright emission around black
  holes
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261028T182000Z
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UID:indico-contribution-3702@nyx.physics.mcgill.ca
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Alicia Savelli (University of Toronto)\nAccretion di
 sks around black holes\, such as those in active galactic nuclei and X-ray
  binaries\, are home to extreme plasma processes that produce bright emiss
 ion across the electromagnetic spectrum.  One such process powering this e
 mission is thought to be magnetic reconnection\, the violent restructuring
  of the magnetic field topology in which magnetic field lines pinch apart 
 and reconnect\, converting stored magnetic energy into kinetic energy of t
 he encompassing plasma.  In particular\, magnetic reconnection may be resp
 onsible for high-energy X-ray emission from a hot “corona” near the ce
 ntral black hole.  In this talk\, I will demonstrate how this emission is 
 modelled computationally in relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations\,
  as a step towards unlocking the theory behind these fascinating astrophys
 ical environments.\n\nhttps://nyx.physics.mcgill.ca/event/587/contribution
 s/3702/
LOCATION:Online 
URL:https://nyx.physics.mcgill.ca/event/587/contributions/3702/
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