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The behaviour of a relativistic electron-positron plasma in the pulsar magnetosphere is investigated. The equation of the motion of the magnetospheric plasma is discussed, from which it follows that, if the plasma particle radial velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. A. Kahniashvili , G. Z. Machabeli , I. S. Nanobashvili

The interaction between gravitational and electromagnetic radiation has a rather long research history. It is well known, in particular, that gravity-wave distortions can drive propagating electromagnetic signals. Since forced oscillations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-13 Christos G. Tsagas

It is shown, that at weakly nonlinear interaction of waves are possible as modes with chaotic dynamics, and with increasing degree of coherence. Conditions are found at which they arise. One of the types of such interaction is decays. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-26 Vyacheslav Buts , Igor Kovalchuk , Dmytro Tarasov , Alexander Tolstoluzhsky

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

On the viewpoint of corpuscular model an electromagnetic radiation can be regarded as a system composed of photons with different energies and momenta, which provides us a method being different from the Maxwell wave theory to describe the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Zhigang Bu , Yuee Luo , Hehe Li , Wenbo Chen , Peiyong Ji

We study the interaction among gravitational and electromagnetic plane waves by means of an analogue electromagnetic model of gravity, where the gravitational properties are encoded in the electromagnetic properties of a material in flat…

The nonlinear propagation of low-frequency circularly polarized waves in a magnetized dusty plasma is analyzed. It is found that wave steepening and shock formation can take place due to the presence of nonlinear quantum vacuum effects,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Marklund , D. D. Tskhakaya , P. K. Shukla

This paper is the first in a series devoted to the numerical study of nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic waves with plasma. We start with non-magnetized pair plasmas, where the primary processes are induced (Compton) scattering and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Arka Ghosh , Daniel Kagan , Uri Keshet , Yuri Lyubarsky

Three-wave interactions of plasma waves propagating parallel to the mean magnetic field at frequencies below the electron cyclotron frequency are considered. We consider Alfv\'en--ion-cyclotron waves, fast-magnetosonic--whistler waves, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-05 F. Spanier , R. Vainio

The dielectric properties of complex plasma containing either metal or dielectric spherical inclusions (macroparticles, dust) are investigated. We focus on surface plasmon resonances on the macroparticle surfaces and their effect on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 S. V. Vladimirov , O. Ishihara

The electromagnetic energy equation is analyzed term by term in a 3D simulation of kinetic reconnection previously reported by \citet{vapirev2013formation}. The evolution presents the usual 2D-like topological structures caused by an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Giovanni Lapenta , Martin Goldman , David Newman , Stefano Markidis , Andrey Divin

A high energy density plasma embedded in a neutral gas is able to launch an outward-propagating nonlinear electrostatic ionization wave that traps energetic electrons. The trapping maintains a strong sheath electric field, enabling rapid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Haotian Mao , Kathleen Weichman , Zheng Gong , Todd Ditmire , Hernan Quevedo , Alexey Arefiev

The dynamics of an electron bunch irradiated by two focused colliding super-intense laser pulses and the resulting gamma and electron-positron production are studied. Due to attractors of electron dynamics in a standing wave created by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Jirka , O. Klimo , S. V. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , E. Gelfer , S. S. Bulanov , S. Weber , G. Korn

First order phase transitions in the early universe can give rise to a stochastic background of gravitational waves. A hypothetical first order electroweak phase transition is particularly interesting in this respect, since the signal is in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Chiara Caprini

The equations which determine the response of a spinning charged particle moving in a uniform magnetic field to an incident gravitational wave are derived in the linearized approximation to general relativity. We verify that 1) the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. B. Papadopoulos

The energy momentum tensor of a magnetic field always contains a spin-2 component in its anisotropic stress and therefore generates gravitational waves. It has been argued in the literature (Caprini & Durrer \cite{CD}) that this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-13 Elisa Fenu , Ruth Durrer

Based on the generic acceleration model, which suggests different types of electromagnetic interactions between the cosmic charged particles and the different configurations of the electromagnetic (plasma) fields, the ultra high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-21 A. Tawfik , A. Saleh , M. T. Ghoneim , A. Hady

It is shown in linear approximation that in the case of one-dimensional problem of transverse electron waves in a half-infinite slab of homogeneous Maxwellian collisionless plasma with the given boundary field frequency two wave branches of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 V. N. Soshnikov

We report on the nonlinear turbulent processes associated with electromagnetic waves in plasmas. We focus on low-frequency (in comparison with the electron gyrofrequency) nonlinearly interacting electron whistlers and nonlinearly…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Dastgeer Shaikh , P K Shukla

The onset and evolution of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas is determined by several mechanisms, including instabilities, dynamo effects and ultra-high energy particle flows through gas, plasma and interstellar-media.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Flacco , J. Vieira , A. Lifschitz , F. Sylla , S. Kahaly , M. Veltcheva , L. O. Silva , V. Malka