Excitation and conversion of electromagnetic waves in pulsar magnetospheres
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate that nonlinear decay of obliquely propagating Langmuir waves into Langmuir and Alfven waves (L --> L'+A) is possible in a one-dimensional, highly relativistic, streaming, pair plasma. Such a plasma may be in the magnetospheres of pulsars. It is shown that the characteristic frequency of generated Alfven waves is much less than the frequency of Langmuir waves and may be consistent with the observational data on the radio emission of pulsars.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0702195,
title = {Excitation and conversion of electromagnetic waves in pulsar magnetospheres},
author = {G. Gogoberidze and G. Z. Machabeli and V. V. Usov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0702195},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 1 figure