Shock waves propagating in collisionless heliospheric and astrophysical plasmas have
been studied extensively over the decades. One prime motivation is to understand the …

This review aims at providing an up-to-date status and a general introduction to the subject
of the numerical study of energetic particle acceleration and transport in turbulent …

We use fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations with unprecedentedly large transverse box
sizes to study particle acceleration in weakly magnetized mildly relativistic shocks travelling …

Collisionless shocks are ubiquitous in the Universe and often associated with a strong
magnetic field. Here, we use large-scale particle-in-cell simulations of nonrelativistic …

We study diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of electrons in nonrelativistic quasi-
perpendicular shocks using self-consistent one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. By …

Using observations of Earth's bow shock by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, we
show for the first time that active magnetic reconnection is occurring at current sheets …

We have conducted a comprehensive survey of burst mode observations of Earth's bow
shock by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to identify and characterize current sheets …

Abstract We perform a 2.5-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation of a quasi-parallel shock,
using parameters for the Earth's bow shock, to examine electron acceleration and heating …

Particle acceleration in collisionless plasma systems is a central question in astroplasma
and astroparticle physics. The structure of the acceleration regions, electron–ion energy …

Fully kinetic two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are used to study electron
acceleration at high-Mach-number nonrelativistic perpendicular shocks. Supernova remnant …