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The Pulsar Pair Plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Estelle Asseo  and
Alain Riazuelo
Estelle Asseo
Affiliation:
Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS, Ecole Poly technique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
Alain Riazuelo
Affiliation:
Département d’Astrophysique Relativiste et de Cosmologie, UMR 8629 du CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 92195 Meudon, France

Abstract

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The anisotropic and relativistic features of the pulsar pair plasma are adequately modelled using relativistic one-dimensional Jűttner-Synge distribution functions. The dispersion relation for wave propagation in such a plasma involves coefficients that specifically depend on the distribution function of its particles. An analytical determination of these coefficients allows us to obtain characteristics of quasi-longitudinal waves together with the conditions for the unstable interaction of ultrarelativistic beam and plasma. Similar derivations concern electromagnetic waves.

Type
Part 6. Emission and Plasma Theory
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 455 - 456
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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