On the evolution of interacting, magnetized, galactic plasmas
Abstract
The advent of three-dimensional, electromagnetic, and fully relativistic particle simulations allows a detailed study of a magnetized, rotating plasma, galaxy model. When two such models are simulated, an interaction yielding results resembling observational data from double radio sources, including the emission of synchrotron radiation, are obtained. Simulation derived morphologies, radiation intensities, frequency spectra, and isophote patterns are directly compared to observations. The constituent plasma parameters associated with the source Cygnus A are found to ben e =1.8×10-3 cm-3,T=2.8 keV,B=20 30 gamma, with a small population of electrons accelerated to GeV energies by a rotation induced electric field. The results of these simulations, involving a computational resource of five CDC 7600 and five Cray-1 computers, strongly supports an inhomogeneous version of the Klein world model.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00650210
- Bibcode:
- 1983Ap&SS..91...19P
- Keywords:
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- Computerized Simulation;
- Cosmic Plasma;
- Interstellar Magnetic Fields;
- Milky Way Galaxy;
- Plasma Interactions;
- Distribution Functions;
- Electron Acceleration;
- Electron Distribution;
- Electron Energy;
- Radio Sources (Astronomy);
- Relativistic Plasmas;
- Synchrotron Radiation;
- X Ray Sources;
- Astrophysics