Computer simulation of synchrotron radiation in two dimensions
Abstract
Plasma effects on the emission of synchrotron radiation are investigated using a two-dimensional electromagnetic relativistic simulation code. Results are compared with those for a vacuum; it is found that the emission lies between the vacuum emission for nc and nc + 1 where nc is the critical harmonic for EM wave propagation (nc = ωp/Ω0).
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0022377800000131
- Bibcode:
- 1982JPlPh..28..133W