Role of the pressure anisotropy in the relativistic pulsar wind

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Anisotropic Fluids, Fluid Pressure, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Pulsars, Relativistic Plasmas, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Distribution Functions, Magnetic Dipoles, Particle Interactions, Particle Motion, Polytropic Processes, Radiative Transfer, Tensor Analysis

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The hot relativistic MHD wind analysis is generalized to include the anisotropy of the pressure created in the pulsar wind by the strong magnetic field. Even with anisotropy the relativistic MHD equations integrate. In a very intense magnetic field, the motion of relativistic particles becomes rapidly one dimensional in the direction of the field due to the very important radiative losses. Consequently, their distribution function becomes also one-dimensional and the component of the pressure, in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field, decrease. In the limit the transverse component of P approximately 0 the longitudinal component of P not equal 0 we obtain a solution for the fluid flow which, starting at the neutron star surface, reaches smoothly infinity.

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