Officially Dr. Pablo! Immensely grateful to everyone at @golp-ist.bsky.social and to all the colleagues I’ve had the chance to work with over these past years. This journey wouldn’t have been the same without you. I’m sad to leave GoLP, but excited for what’s next, more coming soon, stay tuned!!

We explore the parameter space where this mechanism operates.
Turns out, synchrotron-cooled pair plasmas can support this instability over astrophysically and experimentally relevant conditions.

Using massive particle-in-cell simulations, we show that these rings don’t just form—they radiate.
What comes out is linearly polarized, coherent, narrowband radiation, driven by the electron cyclotron maser instability (ECMI).

Using massive particle-in-cell simulations (some of the larges on this kind of plasma), we show that
what comes out is linearly polarized, coherent, narrow-band radiation, driven by the electron cyclotron maser instability (ECMI).