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Angular Momentum Transport and Particle Acceleration During Magnetorotational Instability in a Kinetic Accretion Disk

Angular Momentum Transport and Particle Acceleration During Magnetorotational Instability in a Kinetic Accretion Disk

Angular momentum transport and particle acceleration during the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a collisionless accretion disk are investigated using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation. We show that the kinetic MRI can provide not only high-energy particle acceleration but also enhancement of angular momentum transport. We find that the plasma pressure anisotropy inside …