Analysis of the instability growth rate during the jet- background interaction in a magnetic field
The two-stream instability is common, responsible for many observed phe- nomena in nature, especially the interaction of jets of various origins with the back- ground plasma (e.g. extragalactic jet interacting with the cosmic background). The dispersion relation that does not consider magnetic field...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Research in astronomy and astrophysics 2013-06, Vol.13 (6), p.687-694 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The two-stream instability is common, responsible for many observed phe- nomena in nature, especially the interaction of jets of various origins with the back- ground plasma (e.g. extragalactic jet interacting with the cosmic background). The dispersion relation that does not consider magnetic fields is described by the well- known Buneman relation. In 2011, Bohata, Bren and Kulhanek derived the relation for the two-stream instability without the cold limit, with the general orientation of a magnetic field, and arbitrary stream directions. The maximum value of the imaginary part of the individual dispersion branches ωn(k) is of interest from a physical point of view. It represents the instability growth rate which is responsible for the onset of turbulence mode and subsequent reconnection on the scale of the ion radius accom- panied by a strong plasma thermalization. The paper presented here is focused on the non-relativistic instability growth rate and its dependence on various input parameters, such as magnitude and direction of magnetic field, sound velocity, plasma frequency of the jet and direction of the wave vector during the jet - intergalactic medium in- teraction. The results are presented in plots and can be used for determination of the plasma parameter values close to which the strong energy transfer and thermalization between the jet and the background plasma occur. |
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ISSN: | 1674-4527 2397-6209 |
DOI: | 10.1088/1674-4527/13/6/008 |