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Astrophysics Seminars

All seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am (unless otherwise noted). They will be held in Bloomberg Lecture Hall and virtually through zoom. If an event was recorded, you can find it posted at ias.edu/videos under Natural Sciences. 

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Astrophysics Seminar Archives

Apr
25
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Micromirror confinement of sub-TeV cosmic rays in galaxy clusters
Patrick Reichherzer
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Recent observations reveal that cosmic rays (CRs) are more tightly confined in various astrophysical systems (e.g. radio bubbles) than current theories predict. I show that microscale magnetic fluctuations, particularly from the mirror instability...