Relativistically expanding cylindrical electromagnetic fields
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
We study relativistically expanding electromagnetic fields of cylindrical geometry. The fields emerge from the side surface of a cylinder and are invariant under translations parallel to the axis of the cylinder. The expansion velocity is in the radial direction and is parametrized by . We consider force-free magnetic fields by setting the total force the electromagnetic field exerts on the charges and the currents equal to zero. Analytical and semi-analytical separable solutions are found for the relativistic problem. In the non-relativistic limit the mathematical form of the equations is similar to equations that have already been studied in static systems of the same geometry.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0904.2125,
title = {Relativistically expanding cylindrical electromagnetic fields},
author = {K. N. Gourgouliatos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2125},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS