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Crustal quakes of highly magnetized neutron stars can disrupt their magnetospheres, triggering energetic phenomena like X-ray and fast radio bursts (FRBs). Understanding plasma wave dynamics in these extreme environments is vital for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Jens F. Mahlmann , Miguel Á. Aloy , Xinyu Li

We consider the polarization behaviour of radio waves propagating through an ultrarelativistic highly magnetized electron-positron plasma in a pulsar magnetosphere. The rotation of magnetosphere gives rise to the wave mode coupling in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. E. Lyubarskii , S. A. Petrova

An Electromagnetic (EM) pulse falling on a plasma medium from vacuum can either reflect or propagate inside the plasma depending on whether it is overdense or underdense. In a magnetised plasma, however, there are usually several pass and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Devshree Mandal , Ayushi Vashistha , Amita Das

Coherent radio emission from pulsars originates from excited plasma waves in an ultra-relativistic and strongly magnetized electron-positron pair plasma streaming along the open magnetic field lines of the pulsar. Traditional coherent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

We examine wave propagation and the formation of shocks in strongly magnetized plasmas by applying a variational technique and the method of characteristics to the coupled magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and quantum-electrodynamic (QED) equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeremy S. Heyl , Lars Hernquist

Magnetosonic waves are intensively studied due to their importance in space plasmas and also in fusion plasmas where they are used in particle acceleration and heating experiments. In the present paper we investigate the magnetosonic waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. A. Boldyrev

We show that axion dark matter (DM) may be detectable through narrow radio lines emitted from neutron stars. The neutron star magnetosphere hosts a strong magnetic field and a plasma frequency that increases towards the neutron star…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Anson Hook , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun

A ray-theoretic phase space description of linear waves in a two-fluid (charges and neutrals) magnetized plasma is used to calculate analytic decay rates and mode transmission and conversion coefficients between fast and slow waves in two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Paul S Cally , M. M. Gomez-Miguez

A theory is proposed that describes mutual conversion of two electromagnetic modes in cold low-density plasma, specifically, in the high-frequency limit where the ion response is negligible. In contrast to the classic (Landau--Zener-type)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 I. Y. Dodin , D. E. Ruiz , S. Kubo

It is a common belief that for magnetic fields typical for accreting neutron stars in High-Mass X-ray Binaries vacuum polarization only affects the propagation of polarized emission in the neutron star magnetosphere. We show that vacuum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 E. Sokolova-Lapa , J. Stierhof , T. Dauser , J. Wilms

In this paper, the nonlinear mode conversion of extraordinary waves in nonuniform magnetized plasmas is studied using the variational symplectic particle-in-cell simulation. The accuracy of the nonlinear simulation is guaranteed by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Jianyuan Xiao , Jian Liu , Hong Qin , Zhi Yu , Nong Xiang

Magnetar bursts can be emitted by Alfv\'en waves growing in the outer magnetosphere to nonlinear amplitudes, $\delta B/B\sim 1$, and triggering magnetic reconnection. Similar magnetic flares should occur quasi-periodically in a magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Andrei M. Beloborodov

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a plasma is reported. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon scattering is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Lennart Stenflo , Gert Brodin , Mattias Marklund , Padma K. Shukla

Ultra-magnetized plasmas, where the magnetic field strength exceeds the Schwinger field of about $B_{Q}\approx4\times10^{13}$~gauss, become of great scientific interest, thanks to the current advances in laser-plasma experiments and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Mikhail V. Medvedev

We have recently shown that in a highly magnetized neutron star atmospheric plasma, vacuum polarization can induce resonant conversion of photon polarization modes via a mechanism analogous to MSW neutrino oscillation. In a recent paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong Lai , Wynn C. G. Ho

We propose that in some pulsars the magnetosphere has different states with different geometries or/and different distributions of currents, it occasionally switches between them. These states have different spindown rates and emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-11 A. N. Timokhin

The interaction of a high-frequency laser with plasma in the presence of an inhomogeneous external magnetic field has been studied here with the help of Particle-In-Cell simulation. It has been shown that laser enters inside the plasma as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Srimanta Maity , Laxman Prasad Goswami , Ayushi Vashistha , Devshree Mandal , Amita Das

The heliosphere is predominantly a partially ionized plasma that consists of electrons, ions and significant neutral atoms. Nonlinear interactions amongst these species take place through direct collision or charge exchange processes. These…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. E. Kellum , Dastgeer Shaikh

Plasma-mediated interaction between astrophysical objects can play an important role and produce electromagnetic radiation in various binary systems, ranging from planet-moon and star-planet systems to binary compact objects. We perform 3D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Nicholas Corso , Dong Lai

We study the effect of vacuum polarization on the atmosphere structure and radiation spectra of neutron stars with surface magnetic fields B=10^14-10^15 G, as appropriate for magnetars. Vacuum polarization modifies the dielectric property…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wynn C. G. Ho , Dong Lai