Publications
A. F. A. Bott, M. W. Kunz, E. Quataert, J. Squire, L. Arzamasskiy, 2025, submitted
Thermodynamics and collisionality in firehose-susceptible high-beta plasmas
P. Kempski, D. Li, D. B. Fielding, E. Quataert, E. S. Phinney, M. W. Kunz, D. L. Jow, A. A. Philippov, 2024, submitted
M. F. Zhang, M. W. Kunz, J. Squire, K. G. Klein, 2025, ApJ, 979, 121
Extreme heating of minor ions in imbalanced solar-wind turbulence
W. Xu, Y.-F. Jiang, M. W. Kunz, J. M. Stone, 2025, ApJ, in press
W. Xu, Y.-F. Jiang, M. W. Kunz, J. M. Stone, 2025, ApJ, in press
E. L. Yerger, M. W. Kunz, A. F. A. Bott, A. Spitkovsky, 2025, JPP, 91, E20
Collisionless conduction in a high-beta plasma: a collision operator for whistler turbulence
S. Majeski, M. W. Kunz, J. Squire, 2024, JPP, 90, 535900601
Self-organization in collisionless, high-beta turbulence
R. J. Ewart, P. Reichherzer, A. F. A. Bott, M. W. Kunz, A. A. Schekochihin, 2024, MNRAS, 532, 2098
Cosmic-ray confinement in radio bubbles by micromirrors
C. J. Bambic, E. Quataert, M. W. Kunz, Y.-F. Jiang, 2024, MNRAS, 530, 1812
E. A. Tolman, M. W. Kunz, J. M. Stone, L. Arzamasskiy, 2024, ApJ, 967, 136
P. Reichherzer, A. F. A. Bott, R. J. Ewart, G. Gregori, P. Kempski, M. W. Kunz, A. A. Schekochihin, 2025, Nature Astronomy (cover article)
Efficient micromirror confinement of sub-TeV cosmic rays in galaxy clusters
R. A. Chirakkara, A. Seta, C. Federrath, M. W. Kunz, 2024, MNRAS, 528, 937
Critical magnetic Reynolds number of the turbulent dynamo in collisionless plasmas
S. Majeski, M. W. Kunz, 2024, JPP, 90, 535900101
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high-beta plasmas
M. Zhou, V. Zhdankin, M. W. Kunz, N. F. Loureiro, D. A. Uzdensky, 2024, ApJ, 960, 12
Magnetogenesis in a collisionless plasma: from Weibel instability to turbulent dynamo
C. J. Bambic, E. Quataert, M. W. Kunz, 2024, MNRAS, 527, 2895
Local models of two-temperature accretion disc coronae. I. Structure, outflows, and energetics
J. Squire, R. Meyrand, M. W. Kunz, 2023, ApJL, 957, L30
Electron-ion heating partition in imbalanced turbulence
K. G. Klein, H. Spence, ... , M. W. Kunz, ... , 2023, SSRv, 219, 74
HelioSwarm: a multipoint, multiscale mission to characterize turbulence
P. Kempski, D. Fielding, E. Quataert, A. K. Galishnikova, M. W. Kunz, A. A. Philippov, B. Ripperda, 2023, MNRAS, 525, 4985
Cosmic ray transport in large-amplitude turbulence with small-scale field reversals
J. Squire, M. W. Kunz, L. Arzamasskiy, Z. Johnston, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin, 2023, JPP, 89, 905890417
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence
S. Majeski, M. W. Kunz, J. Squire, 2023, JPP, 89, 905890303
Microphysically modified magnetosonic modes in collisionless, high-beta plasmas
V. Zhdankin, M. W. Kunz, D. Uzdensky, 2023, ApJ, 944, 24
Synchrotron firehose instability
L. Arzamasskiy, M. W. Kunz, J. Squire, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin, 2023, PRX, 13, 021014
Kinetic turbulence in high-beta collisionless plasmas
S. S. Cerri, T. Passot, D. Laveder, P.-L. Sulem, M. W. Kunz, 2022, ApJ, 939, 36
Turbulent regimes in collisions of 3D Alfvén-wave packets
A. F. A. Bott, L. Chen, P. Tzeferacos, ... , M. W. Kunz, ... , A. A. Schekochihin, D. Q. Lamb, G. Gregori, 2022, MRE, 7, 046901
Insensitivity of a turbulent laser-plasma dynamo to initial conditions
M. W. Kunz, T. W. Jones, I. Zhuravleva, 2022, in Section ''Galaxy Clusters'' (eds E. Pointecouteau, E. Rasia, A. Simionescu) of the ''Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics'' (eds C. Bambi, A. Santangelo)
Plasma physics of the intracluster medium
H. R. Russell, P. E. J. Nulsen, D. Caprioli, U. Chadayammuri, A. C. Fabian, M. W. Kunz, B. R. McNamara, J. S. Sanders, et al., 2022, MNRAS, 514, 1477
The structure of cluster merger shocks: turbulent width and the electron heating timescale
A. K. Galishnikova, M. W. Kunz, A. A. Schekochihin, 2022, PRX, 12, 041027
Tearing instability and current-sheet disruption in the turbulent dynamo
H. Winarto, M. W. Kunz, 2022, JPP, 88, 905880210 (Featured Article)
Triggering tearing in a forming current sheet with the mirror instability
M. Zhou, V. Zhdankin, M. W. Kunz, N. F. Loureiro, D. A. Uzdensky, 2022, PNAS, 119, 2119831119
Spontaneous magnetization of collisionless plasma
H. N. Latter, M. W. Kunz, 2022, MNRAS, 511, 1182
The vertical shear instability in poorly ionized, magnetized protoplanetary discs
J. Squire, R. Meyrand, M. W. Kunz, L. Arzamasskiy, A. A. Schekochihin, E. Quataert, 2022, Nature Astronomy, 6, 715
High-frequency heating of the solar wind triggered by low-frequency turbulence
A. F. A. Bott, L. Arzamasskiy, M. W. Kunz, E. Quataert, J. Squire, 2021, ApJL, 922, L35
Adaptive critical balance and firehose instability in an expanding, turbulent, collisionless plasma
W. Xu, M. W. Kunz, 2021, MNRAS, 508, 2142
S. S. Cerri, L. Arzamasskiy, M. W. Kunz, 2021, ApJ, 916, 120
On stochastic heating and its phase-space signatures in low-beta kinetic turbulence
A. Riols, W. Xu, G. Lesur, M. W. Kunz, H. Latter, 2021, MNRAS, 506, 1407
Gravito-turbulence and dynamo in poorly ionized protostellar discs. I. Zero-net-flux case
W. Xu, M. W. Kunz, 2021, MNRAS, 502, 4911
A. F. A. Bott, P. Tzeferacos, L. Chen, ... , M. W. Kunz, ... , A. A. Schekochihin, D. Q. Lamb, G. Gregori, 2021, PNAS, 118, e2015729118
Time-resolved fast turbulent dynamo in a laser plasma
V. Zhdankin, D. A. Uzdensky, M. W. Kunz, 2021, ApJ, 908, 71
Production and persistence of extreme two-temperature plasmas in radiative relativistic turbulence
M. W. Kunz, J. Squire, A. A. Schekochihin, E. Quataert, 2020, JPP, 86, 905860603
Self-sustaining sound in collisionless, high-beta plasma
D. A. St-Onge, M. W. Kunz, J. Squire, A. A. Schekochihin, 2020, JPP, 86, 905860503
Fluctuation dynamo in a weakly collisional plasma
F. Califano, S. S. Cerri, M. Faganello, D. Laveder, M. Sisti, M. W. Kunz, 2020, FrP, 8, 317
Electron-only reconnection in plasma turbulence L. Arzamasskiy, M. W. Kunz, B. D. G. Chandran, E. Quataert, 2019, ApJ, 879, 53 Hybrid-kinetic Simulations of Ion Heating in Alfvenic Turbulence P. Kempski, E. Quataert, J. Squire, M. W. Kunz, 2019, MNRAS, 486, 4013 Shearing-box simulations of MRI-driven turbulence in weakly collisional accretion discs J. Squire, A. A. Schekochihin, E. Quataert, M. W. Kunz, 2019, JPP, 85, 905850114 Magneto-immutable turbulence in weakly collisional plasmas A. Alt, M. W. Kunz, 2019, JPP Letters, 85, 764850101 (Featured Article) Onset of magnetic reconnection in a collisionless, high-beta plasma D. A. St-Onge, M. W. Kunz, 2018, ApJL, 863, L25 Fluctuation Dynamo in a Collisionless, Weakly Magnetized Plasma S. S. Cerri, M. W. Kunz, F. Califano, 2018, ApJL, 856, L13 Dual Phase-Space Cascades in 3D Hybrid-Vlasov--Maxwell Turbulence M. W. Kunz, I. G. Abel, K. G. Klein, A. A. Schekochihin, 2018, JPP, 84, 715840201 Astrophysical gyrokinetics: Turbulence in pressure-anisotropic plasmas at ion scales and beyond J. Squire, E. Quataert, M. W. Kunz, 2017, JPP, 83, 905830613 Pressure-anisotropy-induced nonlinearities in the kinetic magnetorotational instability J. Squire, M. W. Kunz, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin, 2017, PRL, 119, 5101 Kinetic simulations of the interruption of large-amplitude shear-Alfven waves in a high-beta plasma M. W. Kunz, J. M. Stone, E. Quataert, 2016, PRL, 117, 235101 (Editors' Suggestion) Magnetorotational Turbulence and Dynamo in a Collisionless Plasma R. Xu, M. W. Kunz, 2016, JPP, 82, 5 (Featured Article) Linear Vlasov theory of a magnetised, thermally stratified atmosphere S. V. Komarov, E. M. Churazov, M. W. Kunz, A. A. Schekochihin, 2016, MNRAS, 460, 467 Suppression of thermal conduction in a mirror-unstable plasma C. H. K. Chen, L. Matteini, A. A. Schekochihin, M. L. Stevens, C. S. Salem, B. A. Maruca, M. W. Kunz, S. D. Bale, 2016, ApJL, 825, 26 Multi-Species Measurements of the Firehose and Mirror Instability Thresholds J. B. Simon, G. Lesur, M. W. Kunz, P. J. Armitage, 2015, MNRAS, 454, 1117 Magnetically driven accretion in protoplanetary discs S. Melville, A. A. Schekochihin, M. W. Kunz, 2015, MNRAS, 459, 2701 M. W. Kunz, A. A. Schekochihihin, C. H. K. Chen, I. Abel, S. C. Cowley, 2015, JPP, 81, 325810501 Inertial-Range Kinetic Turbulence in Pressure-Anisotropic Astrophysical Plasmas J. A. ZuHone, M. W. Kunz, M. Markevitch, J. M. Stone, V. Biffi, 2014, ApJ, 798, 90 The Effect of Anisotropic Viscosity on Cold Fronts in Galaxy Clusters G. Lesur, M. W. Kunz, S. Fromang, 2014, A&A, 566, 56 M. W. Kunz, A. A. Schekochihin, J. M. Stone, 2014, PRL, 112, 205003 (Fig. 6 chosen for PRL cover) Firehose and Mirror Instabilities in a Collisionless Shearing Plasma M. W. Kunz, J. M. Stone, X.-N. Bai, 2014, JCoP, 259, 154 Pegasus: A new hybrid-kinetic particle-in-cell code for astrophysical plasma dynamics M. W. Kunz, G. Lesur, 2013, MNRAS, 434, 2295 Magnetic self-organization in Hall-dominated magnetorotational turbulence M. W. Kunz, T. Bogdanovic, C. S. Reynolds, J. M. Stone, 2012, ApJ, 754, 122 Buoyancy Instabilities in a Weakly Collisional Intracluster Medium H. N. Latter, M. W. Kunz, 2012, MNRAS, 423, 1964 The HBI in a quasi-global model of the intracluster medium W. B. Dapp, S. Basu, M. W. Kunz, 2012, A&A, 541, 35 Bridging the gap: disk formation in the Class 0 phase with ambipolar diffusion and Ohmic dissipation M. W. Kunz, 2011, MNRAS, 417, 602 M. W. Kunz, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, J. J. Binney, J. S. Sanders, 2011, MNRAS, 410, 2446 M. W. Kunz, T. Ch. Mouschovias, 2010, MNRAS, 408, 322 The nonisothermal stage of magnetic star formation. II. Results J. D. Matthews, L. J. Greenhill, C. Goddi, C. J. Chandler, E. M. L. Humphreys, M. W. Kunz, 2010, ApJ, 708, 80 A Feature Movie of SiO Emission 20-100 AU from the Massive Young Stellar Object Orion Source I M.W. Kunz, 2009, Ph.D. Thesis The Nonisothermal Stage of Magnetic Star Formation M.W. Kunz, T. Ch. Mouschovias, 2009, MNRAS, 399, L94 The initial core mass function due to ambipolar diffusion in molecular clouds T. Ch. Mouschovias, M. W. Kunz, D. A. Christie, 2009, MNRAS, 397, 14 Formation of interstellar clouds: Parker instability with phase transitions M. W. Kunz, T. Ch. Mouschovias, 2009, ApJ, 693, 1895 (Erratum: 696, 2290) NOTE: Please read the arXiv version. The ApJ typesetter introduced numerous typos. M. W. Kunz, 2008, MNRAS, 385, 1494 On the linear stability of weakly ionized, magnetized planar shear flows T. Ch. Mouschovias, K. Tassis, M. W. Kunz, 2006, ApJ, 646, 1043 Observational Constraints on the Ages of Molecular Clouds and the Star-Formation Timescale: Ambipolar-Diffusion--Controlled or Turbulent-Induced Star Formation? M. W. Kunz, S. A. Balbus, 2004, MNRAS, 348, 355 Ambipolar diffusion in the magnetorotational instability