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arXiv 1804.05071astro-ph.HEphysics.comp-phphysics.plasm-ph
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存在背景不均匀性时束-等离子体不稳定性的增长

Growth of beam-plasma instabilities in the presence of background inhomogeneity

Mohamad Shalaby, Avery E. Broderick, Philip Chang, Christoph Pfrommer, Astrid Lamberts, Ewald Puchwein

摘要:

我们探讨了背景等离子体数密度的不均匀性如何改变束等离子体系统的静电不稳定波模的增长。这是特别有趣的耀变体驱动的光束等离子体的不稳定性,这可能会被抑制在星系际介质的不均匀性,最近在文献中声称。使用高分辨率的粒子在细胞模拟与SHARP代码,我们表明,增长的不稳定性是本地的,即,具有几乎均匀的背景密度的区域将支持朗缪尔波的增长,即使当它们被强烈不均匀的区域分开时,也会导致不稳定性的总体较慢的增长。我们还表明,如果背景密度是连续变化的,增长率的不稳定性是较低的,虽然在所有情况下,系统保持在线性政权的时间更长,不稳定性不会消失。在所有情况下,与非线性饱和时的均匀情况相比,光束损失了其初始动能的大约相同部分。因此,星系际介质的不均匀性不太可能抑制耀变体驱动的束-等离子体不稳定性的增长。

英文摘要:

We explore how inhomogeneity in the background plasma number density alters the growth of electrostatic unstable wavemodes of beam plasma systems. This is particularly interesting for blazar-driven beam-plasma instabilities, which may be suppressed by inhomogeneities in the intergalactic medium as was recently claimed in the literature. Using high resolution Particle-In-Cell simulations with the SHARP code, we show that the growth of the instability is local, i.e., regions with almost homogeneous background density will support the growth of the Langmuir waves, even when they are separated by strongly inhomogeneous regions, resulting in an overall slower growth of the instability. We also show that if the background density is continuously varying, the growth rate of the instability is lower; though in all cases, the system remains within the linear regime longer and the instability is not extinguished. In all cases, the beam loses approximately the same fraction of its initial kinetic energy in comparison to the uniform case at non-linear saturation. Thus, inhomogeneities in the intergalactic medium are unlikely to suppress the growth of blazar-driven beam-plasma instabilities.

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