Publications, Astrophysicist

2026

15 papers

Published First Author

Particle-in-Cell Methods for Simulations of Sheared, Expanding, or Escaping Astrophysical Plasma

Bacchini, F., Gorbunov, E.A., Péters de Bonhome, M., Els, P., Argyropoulos, K.-X., Ly, M.N., Grošelj, D.

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

arXiv DOI

Published First Author

Turbulent Magnetogenesis and Large-scale Magnetic Dynamo Amplification in Ion-electron Plasmas

Bacchini, F., Pucci, F., Servidio, S., Valentini, F., Matthaeus, W.H.

Reports on Progress in Physics (Letter)

arXiv DOI

Published

Alpha Core-Beam Origin in Low-β Solar Wind Plasma: Insights from Fully Kinetic Simulation

Pezzini, L., Bacchini, F., Zhukov, A.N., Arrò, G., López, R.A.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

Published

Non-thermal electron acceleration in turbulent, post-flare coronal loops

Mora, C., Bacchini, F., Keppens, R.

Astronomy & Astrophysics

arXiv DOI

Published

Comparing Simulated and Observed Particle Energy Distributions through Magnetic Reconnection in Earth's Magnetotail

Reisinger, N., Bacchini, F.

Astronomy & Astrophysics (Letter)

arXiv DOI

Published

Accelerating Discoveries with Exascale Computing in Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Space Plasma Physics

Shukla, N., Karademir, G.S., Rezzolla, L., Bacchini, F., Truzzi, S., Mignone, A., Dolag, K., Tornatore, L., Riha, L., Taffoni, G.

Nature Astronomy

DOI

Published

Generation of proton beams at switchback boundary-like rotational discontinuities in the solar wind

Lin, R., Bacchini, F., He, J., Pezzini, L., Peng, J.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

Published

Plasma Mixing Driven by the Collisionless Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability: Insights from fully kinetic simulation and density-based diagnostics

Ferro, S., Bacchini, F., Arrò, G., Pucci, F., Henri, P.

Astronomy & Astrophysics

arXiv DOI

Published

Advancing Heliophysics and Space Weather Modeling through Open Science

Corti, C., Kuznetsova, M.M., Reiss, M.A., Yue, J., Karpen, J., Arge, C.N., Bacchini, F., Bard, C., Bruinsma, S., Caplan, R.M., Daldorff, L.K.S., Deka, P.J., DeVore, C.R., Elvidge, S., Ganushkina, N., Huba, J.D., Jackson, B.V., Jordanova, V., Linker, J.A., Liu, H., Luhmann, J.G., Markidis, S., Mayank, P., Merkin, V., Moens, N., Odstrcil, D., Omelchenko, Y.A., Palmroth, M., Poedts, S., Ridley, A.J., Shou, Y., Tenishev, V., Themens, D.R., Toth, G., Wang, W., Wilhelm, R.-P., Young, M.A., Cecconi, B., Chou, M.-Y., De Zeeuw, D., Delzanno, G.L., Didigu, C., El Alaoui, M., Fung, S., Green, J., Huang, Z., Jian, L.K., Landwer, L.J., Lesko, M., MacNeice, P., Masson, A., Mays, M.L., Mehta, P.M., Miesch, M.S., Palmerio, E., Petrenko, M., Provornikova, E., Rastaetter, L., Rusaitis, L., Sachdeva, N., Samara, E., Sur, D., Taktakishvili, A., Topper, J., Tsui, T., Verbeke, C., Wang, J., Wiegand, C., Wiltberger, M., Zheng, Y., Bisi, M.M., Georgoulis, M.K., Kodikara, T., Pulkkinen, T., Chartier, A., da Silva, D., Faturahman, A., Garcia-Sage, K., Kondrashov, D., Ledvina, V.E., Liu, W., Pandey, C., Resnick, E., Shi, C., Weigel, R.S., Whitman, K., Zakharenkova, I., Zhang, K.

Space Weather

arXiv DOI

Published

Recommendations for Advancing Heliophysics and Space Weather Modeling through Open Science

Reiss, M.A., Kuznetsova, M.M., Corti, C., Yue, J., Karpen, J., Arge, C.N., Bacchini, F., Bard, C., Bruinsma, S., Caplan, R.M., Daldorff, L.K.S., Deka, P.J., DeVore, C.R., Elvidge, S., Ganushkina, N., Huba, J.D., Jackson, B.V., Jordanova, V., Linker, J.A., Liu, H., Luhmann, J.G., Markidis, S., Mayank, P., Merkin, V., Moens, N., Odstrcil, D., Omelchenko, Y.A., Palmroth, M., Poedts, S., Ridley, A.J., Shou, Y., Tenishev, V., Themens, D.R., Toth, G., Wang, W., Wilhelm, R.-P., Young, M.A., Cecconi, B., Chou, M.-Y., De Zeeuw, D., Delzanno, G.L., Didigu, C., El Alaoui, M., Fung, S., Green, J., Huang, Z., Jian, L.K., Landwer, L.J., Lesko, M., MacNeice, P., Masson, A., Mays, M.L., Mehta, P.M., Miesch, M.S., Palmerio, E., Petrenko, M., Provornikova, E., Rastaetter, L., Rusaitis, L., Sachdeva, N., Samara, E., Sur, D., Taktakishvili, A., Topper, J., Tsui, T., Verbeke, C., Wang, J., Wiegand, C., Wiltberger, M., Zheng, Y.,Bisi, M.M., Georgoulis, M.K., Kodikara, T., Pulkkinen, T., Chartier, A., da Silva, D., Faturahman, A., Garcia-Sage, K., Kondrashov, D., Ledvina, V.E., Liu, W., Pandey, C., Resnick, E., Shi, C., Weigel, R.S., Whitman, K., Zakharenkova, I., Zhang, K.

Space Weather

DOI

Published

Formation of Suprathermal Electron Populations in the Expanding, Turbulent Solar Wind

Péters de Bonhome, M., Bacchini, F., Pezzini, L., Pierrard, V.

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

Cosmic-ray Transport in Three-dimensional Anisotropic Turbulent Magnetic Fields

Maci, D., Keppens, R., Bacchini, F.

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

High fidelity simulations of the multi-species Vlasov-Maxwell system with the Numerical Flow Iteration

Wilhelm, R.-P., Bacchini, F.

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

arXiv DOI

Published

Reconnection-induced electron energization in magnetospheric Kelvin-Helmholtz dynamics

Ferro, S., Bacchini, F., Arrò, G., Pucci, F., Henri, P.

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

3D Kinetic Simulations of Driven Reconnection in Merging Force-free Flux Tubes: Drift-kink Dynamics and Particle Acceleration

Granier, C., Bacchini, F., Grošelj, D., Sironi, L.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

2025

14 papers

Published First Author

Three-dimensional Dynamics of Strongly Magnetized Ion-Electron Relativistic Reconnection

Bacchini, F., Werner, G.R., Granier, C., Vos, J.

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

Can Alfvénic Fluctuations Affect the Coherence and Complexity of Magnetic Ejecta? A Case Study Based on Multi-Spacecraft Measurements at 1 au

Scolini, C., Lugaz, N., Winslow, R.M., Farrugia, C.J., Magyar, N., Bacchini, F., Zhuang, B.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

Published

Icarus 3.0: Dynamic Heliosphere Modelling

Baratashvili, T., Popescu Braileanu, B., Bacchini, F., Keppens, R., Poedts, S.

Astronomy & Astrophysics

arXiv DOI

Published

First-principles measurement of ion and electron energization in collisionless accretion flow

Gorbunov, E.A., Bacchini, F., Zhdankin, V., Werner, G.R., Begelman, M.C., Uzdensky, D.A.

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

New Particle Pusher with Hadronic Interactions for Modeling Multimessenger Emission from Compact Objects

Zou, M., Hakobyan, H., Mbarek, R., Ripperda, B., Bacchini, F., Sironi, L.

Physical Review D

arXiv DOI

Published

Toward applications of the BxC toolkit

Maci, D., Keppens, R., Bacchini, F.

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

DOI

Published

EuroHPC SPACE CoE: Redesigning Scalable Parallel Astrophysical Codes for Exascale

Shukla, N., Romeo, A., Caravita, C., Riha, L., Vysocky, O., Strakos, P., Jaros, M., Barbosa, J., Vavrik, R., Mignone, A., Rossazza, M., Truzzi, S., Berta, V., Colonnelli, I., Medić, D., Boella, E., Gregori, D., Sciacca, E., Tornatore, L., Taffoni, G., Deka, P.J., Bacchini, F., Wilhelm, R.-P., Doulis, G., Pierre, K., Rezzolla, L., Colman, T., Commerçon, B., Bouizi, O., Kuhn, M., Raffin, E., Sergent, M., Wissing, R., Marin, G., Dolag, K., Karademir, G.S., Perna, G., Zanotti, M., Trujillo-Gomez, S.

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

arXiv DOI

Published PRL Editor's Suggestion

Leaking Outside the Box: Kinetic Turbulence with Cosmic-Ray Escape

Gorbunov, E.A., Grošelj, D., Bacchini, F.

Physical Review Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

Towards Exascale Computing for Astrophysical Simulation Leveraging the Leonardo EuroHPC System

Shukla, N., Romeo, A., Caravita, C., Redenti, M., Vavrik, R., Riha, L., Mignone, A., Rossazza, M., Truzzi, S., Tornatore, L., Ragagnin, A., Castro, T., Karademir, G.S., Dolag, K., Deka, P.J., Bacchini, F., Wilhelm, R.-P., Gregori, D., Boella, E.

Procedia Computer Science

arXiv DOI

Published

Comparison of magnetic diffusion and reconnection in ideal and resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, ideal magnetohydrodynamics and resistive force-free electrodynamics

Grehan, M.P., Ghosal, T., Beattie, J.R., Ripperda, B., Porth, O., Bacchini, F.

Physical Review D

arXiv DOI

Published

Driven Collisionless Reconnection of Force-free Flux Tubes: From Onset to Coalescence

Granier, C., Grošelj, D., Comisso, L., Bacchini, F.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

Published

A Lagrangian-Frame Technique for Investigating Plasma Turbulence in Complex Underlying System-Scale Structures

Lapenta, G., Berchem, J., El-Alaoui, M., Walker, R., Aravindakshan, H., Reisinger, N., Pucci, F., Arrò, G., Bacchini, F.

Fundamental Plasma Physics

DOI

Published

Energetic spectra from semi-implicit particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection

Schoeffler, K.M., Bacchini, F., Kormann, K., Eichmann, B., Innocenti, M.E.

Scientific Reports

arXiv DOI

Published

A Kinetic Model of Solar Wind Acceleration Driven by Ambipolar Electric Potential and Velocity-Space Diffusion

Péters de Bonhome, M., Pierrard, V., Bacchini, F.

Astronomy & Astrophysics

arXiv DOI

2024

9 papers

Published First Author

Fundamental, Harmonic, and Third-harmonic Plasma Emission from Beam-plasma Instabilities: A First-principles Precursor for Astrophysical Radio Bursts

Bacchini, F., Philippov, A.A.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

arXiv DOI

Published First Author

Particle Trapping and Acceleration in Turbulent Post-flare Coronal Loops

Bacchini, F., Ruan, W., Keppens, R.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

arXiv DOI

Published First Author PRL Editor's Suggestion

Collisionless Magnetorotational Turbulence in Pair Plasmas: Steady-state Dynamics, Particle Acceleration, and Radiative Cooling

Bacchini, F., Zhdankin, V., Gorbunov, E.A., Werner, G.R., Arzamasskiy, L., Begelman, M.C., Uzdensky, D.A.

Physical Review Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

On the Role of Alfvénic Fluctuations as Mediators of Coherence within Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections: Investigation of Multi-Spacecraft Measurements at 1 au

Scolini, C., Lugaz, N., Winslow, R.M., Farrugia, C.J., Magyar, N., Bacchini, F.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

Published

Particle-in-cell Simulations of the Magnetorotational Instability in Stratified Shearing Boxes

Sandoval, A., Riquelme, M., Sptikovsky, A., Bacchini, F.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

arXiv DOI

Published

An Exactly Energy-conserving Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell Method in Curvilinear Coordinates

Croonen, J., Pezzini, L., Bacchini, F., Lapenta, G.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

arXiv DOI

Published

Comparative simulations of Kelvin-Helmholtz induced magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetospheric flanks

Ferro, S., Faganello, M., Califano, F., Bacchini, F.

Physics of Plasmas

arXiv DOI

Published Highlighted in AAS NOVA

BxC Toolkit: Generating Tailored Turbulent 3D Magnetic Fields

Maci, D., Keppens, R., Bacchini, F.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

arXiv DOI

Published

Fully Kinetic Simulations of Proton-Beam-Driven Instabilities from Parker Solar Probe Observations

Pezzini, L., Zhukov, A.N., Bacchini, F., Arrò, G., López, R.A., Micera, A., Innocenti, M.E., Lapenta, G.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

2023

5 papers

Published First Author

RelSIM: A Relativistic Semi-Implicit Method for Particle-in-Cell Simulations

Bacchini, F.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

arXiv DOI

Published

Collisionless accretion onto black holes: Dynamics and flares

Galishnikova, A., Philippov, A.A., Quataert, E., Bacchini, F., Parfrey, K., Ripperda, B.

Physical Review Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

MPI-AMRVAC 3.0: updates to an open-source simulation framework

Keppens, R., Popescu Braileanu, B., Zhou, Y., Ruan, W., Xia, C., Guo, Y., Claes, N., Bacchini, F.

Astronomy & Astrophysics

arXiv DOI

Published

Black Hole Photon Rings Beyond General Relativity

Staelens, S., Mayerson, D.R., Bacchini, F., Ripperda, B., Kuchler, L.

Physical Review D

arXiv DOI

Published

Effective resistivity in relativistic collisionless plasmoid-mediated reconnection

Selvi, S., Porth, O., Ripperda, B., Bacchini, F., Sironi, L., Keppens, R.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

2022

2 papers

Published First Author

Kinetic heating by Alfvén waves in magnetic shears

Bacchini, F., Pucci, F., Malara, F., Lapenta, G.

Physical Review Letters

arXiv DOI

Published First Author

Fully kinetic shearing-box simulations of magnetorotational turbulence in 2D and 3D. I. Pair plasmas

Bacchini, F., Arzamasskiy, L., Zhdankin, V., Werner, G.R., Begelman, M.C., Uzdensky, D.A.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

2021

2 papers

Published First Author

Fuzzball Shadows: Emergent Horizons from Microstructure

Bacchini, F., Mayerson, D.R., Ripperda, B., Davelaar, J., Olivares, H., Vercnocke, B., Hertog, T.

Physical Review Letters

arXiv DOI

Published

Magnetic Island Merging: Two-dimensional MHD Simulation and Test-Particle Modeling

Zhao, X., Bacchini, F., Keppens, R.

Physics of Plasmas

arXiv DOI

2020

3 papers

Published First Author

A coupled guiding center-Boris particle pusher for magnetized plasmas in compact-object magnetospheres

Bacchini, F., Ripperda, B., Philippov, A.A.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

arXiv DOI

Published First Author

Numerical methods for General Relativistic particles

Bacchini, F., Ripperda, B., Chen, A.Y., Sironi, L.

Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 342

arXiv DOI

Published Top Cited Paper Award 2023 (IOP/AAS)

Magnetic reconnection and hot spot formation in black hole accretion disks

Ripperda, B., Bacchini, F., Philippov, A.A.

The Astrophysical Journal

arXiv DOI

2019

5 papers

Published First Author

Generalized, Energy-conserving Numerical Simulations of Particles in General Relativity. II. Test particles in electromagnetic fields and GRMHD

Bacchini, F., Ripperda, B., Porth, O., Sironi, L.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

arXiv DOI

Published First Author

The relativistic implicit Particle-in-Cell method

Bacchini, F., Amaya, J., Lapenta, G.

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

DOI

Published Co-Main Author

General-relativistic Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics with Robust Primitive-variable Recovery for Accretion Disk Simulations

Ripperda, B., Bacchini, F., Porth, O., Most, E.R., Olivares, H., Nathanail, A., Rezzolla, L., Teunissen, J., Keppens, R.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

arXiv DOI

Published

Slurm: Magnetohydrodynamic Particle-in-cell model of plasma

Olshevsky, V., Bacchini, F., Poedts, S., Lapenta, G.

Computer Physics Communications

arXiv DOI

Published

Determination of plasma physical properties across collisionless shocks driven by solar eruptions

Bemporad, A., Susino, R., Frassati, F., Mancuso, S., Lapenta, G., Bacchini, F.

Proceedings of the 46th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics

2018

2 papers

Published First Author

Generalized, Energy-conserving Numerical Simulations of Particles in General Relativity. I. Time-like and Null Geodesics

Bacchini, F., Ripperda, B., Chen, A.Y., Sironi, L.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

arXiv DOI

Published

A comprehensive comparison of relativistic particle integrators

Ripperda, B., Bacchini, F., Teunissen, J., Xia, C., Porth, O., Sironi, L., Lapenta, G., Keppens, R.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

arXiv DOI

2017

1 paper

Published First Author

A new Particle-in-Cell method for modeling magnetized fluids

Bacchini, F., Olshevsky, V., Poedts, S., Lapenta, G.

Computer Physics Communications

DOI

2016

1 paper

Published First Author

An innovative, particle-supported Lagrangian method for MHD plasma simulations

Bacchini, F., Olshevsky, V., Lapenta, G.

Proceedings of the 43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics

2015

1 paper

Published First Author

Plasma Physical Parameters along CME-driven Shocks. II. Observation-simulation comparison

Bacchini, F., Susino, R., Bemporad, A., Lapenta, G.

The Astrophysical Journal

DOI