Magnetostatic structures in collisionless plasma and their synchrotron radiation |
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Authors: | V Yu Martyanov V V Kocharovsky Vl V Kocharovsky |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France |
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Abstract: | The properties of the magnetostatic structures in a collisionless relativistic plasma found by exactly solving the nonlinear
self-consistent kinetic and Maxwell equations using the method of invariants of particle motion are analyzed. These structures
include individual neutral current sheets and cylindrically symmetric filaments as well as their ensembles, admitting a wide
variety of types of particle energy distribution functions. Relationships are established between the possible parameters
of the current sheets and filaments—their sizes, currents and magnetic fields, and the degree of anisotropy of the particle
momentum distribution. The extent to which these parameters are conditioned by the properties of the Weibel instability that
can produce these structure is also discussed. The spectral peculiarities of the synchrotron radiation from the particles
that form the current sheets and filaments are investigated in the special case of power-law energy distribution functions. |
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