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Magnetized electron-positron plasmas

C. R. Stark, D. A. Diver, A. A. da Costa

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0612679

Abstract

Electrostatic oscillations in cold electron-positron plasmas can be coupled to a propagating electromagnetic mode if the background magnetic field is inhomogeneous. Previous work considered this coupling in the quasi-linear regime, successfully simulating the electromagnetic mode. Here we present a stability analysis of the non-linear problem, perturbed from dynamical equilibrium, in order to gain some insight into the modes present in the system.

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