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Response of a relativistic anisotropic thermal plasma. Part 1. Unmagnetized particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

D. B. MELROSE
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract

Expressions for the linear response tensor are derived using a covariant forward-scattering method for unmagnetized relativistic thermal distributions restricted to one-dimensional (strictly parallel) and two-dimensional (strictly perpendicular) motions. The freedom to make Lorentz transformations is used to generalize the strictly perpendicular distribution to a counterpart of the nonrelativistic Dory–Guest–Harris (DGH) distribution.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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