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Free electron laser in magnetically dominated regime: simulations with ONEDFEL code

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-02-26 v2

Abstract

Using the ONEDFEL code we perform Free Electron Laser simulations in the astrophysically important guide-field dominated regime. For wigglers' (Alfven waves) wavelengths of tens of meters and beam Lorentz factor 103\sim 10^3, the resulting coherently emitted waves are in the centimeter range. Our simulations show a growth of the wave intensity over fourteen orders of magnitude, over the astrophysically relevant scale of \sim few kilometers. The signal grows from noise (unseeded). The resulting spectrum shows fine spectral sub-structures, reminiscent of the ones observed in Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).

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@article{arxiv.2310.17028,
  title  = {Free electron laser in magnetically dominated regime: simulations with ONEDFEL code},
  author = {Maxim Lyutikov and Henry Freund},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17028},
  year   = {2024}
}

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accepted by JPP

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