Publications by authors named "Christopher S Reynolds"

Article Synopsis
  • The study of electron scales is crucial for understanding plasma behavior in space and astrophysics, specifically in terms of plasma turbulence and energy transfer.
  • There is a significant gap in knowledge regarding how plasma electrons contribute to heat flux and its regulation, making it a key area of research.
  • This White Paper outlines important scientific questions related to electron processes and proposes new space missions to address these challenges in the fields of space physics and astrophysics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Hitomi X-ray studies of Giant Radio Pulses from the Crab pulsar.

Publ Astron Soc Jpn Nihon Tenmon Gakkai

April 2018

To search for giant X-ray pulses correlated with the giant radio pulses (GRPs) from the Crab pulsar, we performed a simultaneous observation of the Crab pulsar with the X-ray satellite Hitomi in the 2 - 300 keV band and the Kashima NICT radio observatory in the 1.4 - 1.7 GHz band with a net exposure of about 2 ks on 25 March 2016, just before the loss of the Hitomi mission.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The brightness of an active galactic nucleus is set by the gas falling onto it from the galaxy, and the gas infall rate is regulated by the brightness of the active galactic nucleus; this feedback loop is the process by which supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies may moderate the growth of their hosts. Gas outflows (in the form of disk winds) release huge quantities of energy into the interstellar medium, potentially clearing the surrounding gas. The most extreme (in terms of speed and energy) of these-the ultrafast outflows-are the subset of X-ray-detected outflows with velocities higher than 10,000 kilometres per second, believed to originate in relativistic (that is, near the speed of light) disk winds a few hundred gravitational radii from the black hole.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF