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Ratio of the linear matter power spectrum for o...

Ratio of the linear matter power spectrum for our scenario, in which DM production impri...

Ethan O. Nadler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Limits on the DM particle mass, m, versus the c...

Limits on the DM particle mass, m, versus the comoving wavenumber of field modes that do...

Ethan O. Nadler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Transfer functions, evaluated along our mass co...

Transfer functions, evaluated along our mass constraint, for k* = 104 Mpc−1 (orange), 2....

Ethan O. Nadler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Dependence of the reconnection rate Vrec on the...

Dependence of the reconnection rate Vrec on the Lundquist number S for simulations witho...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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3D visualization of the current density magnitu...

3D visualization of the current density magnitude, ∣J∣, at t = 0 (left) and t = 2.0 (rig...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Initial configuration of magnetic field and den...

Initial configuration of magnetic field and density. Black arrows represent the in-plane...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Power spectra of the vorticity field in the x−z...

Power spectra of the vorticity field in the x−z plane (current sheet midplane) at differ...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Power spectra of the velocity (v, left) and vor...

Power spectra of the velocity (v, left) and vorticity (ω = ∇ × v, right) fields in the x...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Time evolution of the magnetic flux ΦB, calcula...

Time evolution of the magnetic flux ΦB, calculated across the plane x = 0, for different...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Colormaps of 2D cuts (x−z plane) of the current...

Colormaps of 2D cuts (x−z plane) of the current density magnitude (∣J∣ = ∣ ∇ × B∣) at di...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Time evolution of the reconnection rate for the...

Time evolution of the reconnection rate for the simulations with S = 105, Prm = 1.0, Pin...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Colormaps of 2D cuts (x−y and x−z planes) of th...

Colormaps of 2D cuts (x−y and x−z planes) of the current density magnitude at different ...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Colormaps of 2D cuts (x−y and x−z planes) of th...

Colormaps of 2D cuts (x−y and x−z planes) of the vorticity magnitude (∣ω∣ = ∣ ∇ × v∣) at...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Time averaged reconnection rate for different v...

Time averaged reconnection rate for different values of plasma−β. The black dashed line ...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Time averaged reconnection rates for different ...

Time averaged reconnection rates for different Prandtl numbers for the simulations with ...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Time evolution of the reconnection rate for the...

Time evolution of the reconnection rate for the simulation with S = 105, β = 2.0, η = 10...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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2D cut along the plane z = 0 of the 3D MHD simu...

2D cut along the plane z = 0 of the 3D MHD simulation with S = 105, β = 2.0, Prm = 1.0, ...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Left: average thickness 〈δ〉 of the current laye...

Left: average thickness 〈δ〉 of the current layer extracted from the FWHM of the current ...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Comparison of the mean current density magnitud...

Comparison of the mean current density magnitude profile along the y-axis between the mo...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Time evolution of the magnetic flux (left) and ...

Time evolution of the magnetic flux (left) and the reconnection rate (right) for two dif...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Power spectra of the velocity field at t = 1.0 ...

Power spectra of the velocity field at t = 1.0 tA (left) and t = 2.0 tA (right) for the ...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Colormaps of 2D cuts along the planes z = 0 (to...

Colormaps of 2D cuts along the planes z = 0 (top) and y = 0 (bottom) of the current dens...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Time evolution of the magnetic flux (left) and ...

Time evolution of the magnetic flux (left) and the reconnection rate (right) for two dif...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Comparison of the reconnection rate measured wi...

Comparison of the reconnection rate measured with the method described in this paper and...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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Time evolution of the magnetic flux (left) and ...

Time evolution of the magnetic flux (left) and the reconnection rate (right) for two dif...

Giovani H. Vicentin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 987 2

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