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arXiv 1303.2702astro-ph.HEphysics.plasm-ph
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超光速电磁波在脉冲星风终端激波中的作用

The Role of Superluminal Electromagnetic Waves in Pulsar Wind Termination Shocks

Takanobu Amano, John G. Kirk

摘要:

采用一维相对论双流体模拟方法,研究了坡印廷通量主导的相对论流动中驻波激波阵面的动力学行为。上游流包含一个圆偏振,正弦磁剪切波被认为是模仿波驱动的倾斜旋转脉冲星。当波的激波帧频超过等离子体固有频率时,波与激波相互作用,转换成具有超光速相速的大振幅电磁波。超光速波在上游传播,大大改变了激波结构,并在亚激波前形成了一个发育良好的前兆区。坡印廷通量的耗散发生在前体以及在下游区域通过参数不稳定性驱动的超光速波。下游区域中剩余的坡印廷通量完全由超光速波携带。因此,下游的等离子体基本上是未磁化的,相对论性的热等离子体,具有非相对论性的流速,正如脉冲星风星云的观测所表明的那样。

英文摘要:

The dynamics of a standing shock front in a Poynting-flux dominated relativistic flow is investigated by using a one-dimensional, relativistic, two-fluid simulation. An upstream flow containing a circularly polarized, sinusoidal magnetic shear wave is considered, mimicking a wave driven by an obliquely rotating pulsar. It is demonstrated that this wave is converted into large amplitude electromagnetic waves with superluminal phase speeds by interacting with the shock when the shock-frame frequency of the wave exceeds the proper plasma frequency. The superluminal waves propagate in the upstream, modify the shock structure substantially, and form a well-developed precursor region ahead of a subshock. Dissipation of Poynting flux occurs in the precursor as well as in the downstream region through a parametric instability driven by the superluminal waves. The Poynting flux remaining in the downstream region is carried entirely by the superluminal waves. The downstream plasma is therefore an essentially unmagnetized, relativistically hot plasma with a non-relativistic flow speed, as suggested by observations of pulsar wind nebulae.

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