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🎉Congrats Matt Sampson🎉 (Princeton) -- student-led study published on relativstic CR fluids and plasma coupling!

Jun 4, 2025·
James R. Beattie
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Last updated on Jun 4, 2025
Publication Crmhd Turbulence Interstellar Medium
James R. Beattie
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James R. Beattie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton / CITA
🎉Published in Nature Astronomy🎉 -- The spectrum of magnetized turbulence in the interstellar medium! May 13, 2025 →

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