Dynamics and dissipation in magnetically-dominated astrophysical outflows

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Oct 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aps..dppgz2004l&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, 47th Annual DPP Meeting, October 24-28, 2005, abstract #GZ2.004

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Magnetic fields play crucial role in launching and collimation of relativistic outflows. Far away from the central source the fate of magnetic field remains unclear: they may either transfer their energy to matter or may remain dominant until very large distances. These two possibilities lead to different paradigms for particle acceleration: shocks in matter-dominated jets and magnetic dissipation in Poynting flux-dominated jets. I will discuss plasma physics issues specific to dynamics and dissipation in magnetically-dominated astrophysical plasma. I will then compare observational consequences of the two paradigms and discuss how they fare against phenomenology of Gamma Ray Bursts.

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