Benáček, J.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Jessner, A.: Streaming instability in neutron star magnetospheres: No indication of soliton-like waves. Astronomy and Astrophysics 683, p. A69 (2024)
Benáček, J.; Timokhin, A.; Muñoz, P. A.; Jessner, A.; Rievajová, T.; Pohl, M.; Büchner, J.: Poynting flux transport channels formed in polar cap regions of neutron star magnetospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics 691, p. A137 (2024)
Benáček, J.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Jessner, A.: Linear acceleration emission of pulsar relativistic streaming instability and interacting plasma bunches. Astronomy and Astrophysics 675, p. A42 (2023)
Muñoz, P. A.; Jain, N.; Farzalipour Tabriz, M.; Rampp, M.; Büchner, J.: Electron inertia effects in 3D hybrid-kinetic collisionless plasma turbulence. Physics of Plasmas 30, p. 092302 (2023)
Jain, N.; Muñoz, P. A.; Farzalipour Tabriz, M.; Ramp, M.; Büchner, J.: Importance of accurate consideration of the electron inertia in hybrid-kinetic simulations of collisionless plasma turbulence: The 2D limit. Physics of Plasmas 29, p. 053902 (2022)
Shi, Z.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Liu, S.: Proton and Helium Heating by Cascading Turbulence in a Low-beta Plasma. The Astrophysical Journal 941, p. 39 (2022)
Yao, X.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Non-thermal electron velocity distribution functions due to 3D kinetic magnetic reconnection for solar coronal plasma conditions. Physics of Plasmas 29, p. 022104 (2022)
Yao, X.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Benáček, J.; Liu, S.; Zhou, X.: Wave Emission of Nonthermal Electron Beams Generated by Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal 933, p. 219 (2022)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Two-stage Electron Acceleration by 3D Collisionless Guide-field Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal 864 (1), 92 (2018)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Kinetic turbulence in fast three-dimensional collisionless guide-field magnetic reconnection. Physical Review E 98 (4), 043205 (2018)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Jain, N.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.: A new hybrid code (CHIEF) implementing the inertial electron fluid equation without approximation. Computer Physics Communications 224, pp. 245 - 264 (2018)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.; Muñoz, P. A.: Nonlinear evolution of electron shear flow instabilities in the presence of an external guide magnetic field. Physics of Plasmas 24 (3), 032303 (2017)
Jain, N.; von Stechow, A.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Grulke, O.; Klinger, T.: Electron-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of electron scale current sheet dynamics in the VINETA. II guide field reconnection experiment. Physics of Plasmas 24 (9), 092312 (2017)
Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Non-Maxwellian electron distribution functions due to self-generated turbulence in collisionless guide-field reconnection. Physics of Plasmas 23 (10), 102103 (2016)
Muñoz, P. A.; Told, D.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.; Jenko, F.: Gyrokinetic and kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of guide-field reconnection. I. Macroscopic effects of the electron flows. Physics of Plasmas 22 (8), 082110 (2015)
Muñoz, P. A.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.: Instabilities of collisionless current sheets revisited: The role of anisotropic heating. Physics of Plasmas 21 (11), 112106 (2014)
Büchner, J.; Kilian, P.; Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Spanier, F.; Widmer, F.; Zhou, X.; Jain, N.: Kinetic Simulations of Electron Acceleration at Mercury. In: Magnetic Fields in the Solar System: Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions, pp. 201 - 240 (Eds. Lühr, H.; Wicht, J.; Gilder, S. A.; Holschneider, M.). Springer, Cham (2018)
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