Effect of Pressure Anisotropy on Relativistic Slow-Mode Shocks

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Nov 2009

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American Physical Society, 51st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, November 2-6, 2009, abstract #UP8.141

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Shock mediated reconnection is a possible source for the high-energy non-thermal emissions observed in astrophysical systems such as pulsars and magnetars, gamma-ray bursts, and active galactic nuclei. In such strongly magnetized environments, strong gyrotropic anisotropy in the pressure is expected to occur due to synchrotron emission and various instabilities. A newly developed covariant fluid modelfootnotetextJ. M. TenBarge, R. D. Hazeltine, and S. M. Mahajan, Phys. Plasmas 15, 062112 (2008). for magnetized plasmas, incorporating pressure anisotropy but neglecting heat flow, is used to study Petschek type reconnection in a pair plasma governed by slow-mode shocks. The plasma parameters are found to be strongly modified by anisotropy on both sides of the shock.

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