Dr. Kyle Parfrey
Hitachi Assistant Professor, Pure & Applied Mathematics
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
I. El Mellah, B. Cerutti, B. Crinquand, K. Parfrey, Spinning black holes magnetically connected to a Keplerian disk. Magnetosphere, reconnection sheet, particle acceleration, and coronal heating, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022
Benjamin Crinquand, Benoît Cerutti, Guillaume Dubus, Kyle Parfrey, Alexander A Philippov, Images of magnetospheric reconnection-powered radiation around supermassive black holes, Physical Review Letters, 2022
B Crinquand, B Cerutti, G Dubus, K Parfrey, A Philippov, Synthetic gamma-ray lightcurves of Kerr black-hole magnetospheric activity from particle-in-cell simulations, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 650, 2021, p163-
F Bacchini, B Ripperda, AA Philippov, K Parfrey, A Coupled Guiding Center-Boris Particle Pusher for Magnetized Plasmas in Compact-object Magnetospheres, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2020
B Crinquand, B Cerutti, A Philippov, K Parfrey, G Dubus, Multidimensional Simulations of Ergospheric Pair Discharges around Black Holes, Physical Review Letters, 2020
K Parfrey, A Philippov, B Cerutti, First-Principles Plasma Simulations of Black-Hole Jet Launching., Physical Review Letters, 2019
K Parfrey, A Tchekhovskoy, General-relativistic Simulations of Four States of Accretion onto Millisecond Pulsars, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017
K Parfrey, A Spitkovsky, AM Beloborodov, Simulations of the magnetospheres of accreting millisecond pulsars, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017
M Belyaev, K Parfrey, Spatial distribution of pair production over the pulsar polar cap, The Astrophysical Journal, 2016
K Parfrey, A Spitkovsky, AM Beloborodov, Torque enhancement, spin equilibrium, and jet power from disk-induced opening of pulsar magnetic fields, The Astrophysical Journal, 2016
K Parfrey, D Giannios, AM Beloborodov, Black hole jets without large-scale net magnetic flux, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 2015
B Cerutti, A Philippov, K Parfrey, A Spitkovsky, Particle acceleration in axisymmetric pulsar current sheets, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015
K Parfrey, AM Beloborodov, L Hui, Dynamics of strongly twisted relativistic magnetospheres, The Astrophysical Journal, 2013
K Parfrey, AM Beloborodov, L Hui, Twisting, reconnecting magnetospheres and magnetar spindown, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2012
K Parfrey, AM Beloborodov, L Hui, Introducing PHAEDRA: a new spectral code for simulations of relativistic magnetospheres, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012
K Parfrey, L Hui, RK Sheth, Scale-dependent halo bias from scale-dependent growth, Physical Review D, 2011
L Hui, K Parfrey, Evolution of galaxy bias, generalized, Physical Review D, 2008
K Parfrey, K Menou, The origin of solar activity in the tachocline, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2007