Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978a%26a....65..401a&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 65, no. 3, May 1978, p. 401-408.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Compton Effect, Linear Polarization, Neutron Stars, Plasma Waves, Relativistic Plasmas, Wave Attenuation, Antenna Radiation Patterns, Crab Nebula, Electron Plasma, Electron-Positron Plasmas, Plane Waves, Positrons, Pulsars, Synchrotron Radiation
Scientific paper
The Synchro-Compton effect for a nonlinear self-consistent linearly polarized plane wave of relativistic amplitude in an electron-positron plasma is reconsidered. The radiative damping is necessarily nonlinear and spatially inhomogeneous, since the wave phase velocity depends upon its amplitude. It is found that a radiation reaction would extinguish a pulsar wave in about (2 by 10 to the 41st power divided by the product of the total energy output per second and the frequency) wavelengths. A wave with the energy flux corresponding to Crab pulsar parameters would be extinguished in about 10 wavelengths, although waves from slower rotators might survive. The antenna pattern of the photons emitted differs significantly from that found using vacuum solutions of Maxwell's equations.
Asseo Estelle
Kennel Charles F.
Pellat Rene
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