The response tensor for a highly relativistic magnetized thermal plasma

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 58, Issue PART 4, 1997, Pages 735-745

  Melrose, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARADAY EFFECT; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS; POLARIZATION; TENSORS;

FARADAY ROTATION; LINEAR RESPONSE TENSORS; RELATIVISTIC MAGNETIZED THERMAL PLASMAS; TRUBNIKOV'S RESPONSE TENSOR;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 0031273056     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377897006284     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Abramowitz, M. and Stegun, I. A. 1960 Handbook of Mathematical Functions. Dover, New York.
2. Arons, J. and Barnard, J. J. 1986 Wave propagation in pulsar magnetospheres: dispersion relations and normal modes of plasmas in superstrong magnetic fields. Astrophys. J. 302, 120-137.
3. Beskin, V. S., Gurevich, A. V. and Istomin, Ya. N. 1987 Permittivity of a weakly inhomogeneous plasma. Soviet Phys. JETP 65, 715-726.
4. Kazbegi, A. Z., Machabeli, G. Z. and Melikidze, G. I. 1991 On the circular polarization of pulsar emission. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 253, 377-387.
5. Lominadze, D. G., Machabeli, G. Z., Melikidze, G. I. and Pataraya, A. D. 1986 Magnetospheric plasma of a pulsar. Soviet J. Plasma Phys. 12, 712-721.
6. Melrose, D. B. 1979 Propagation effects on the polarization of pulsar radio emission. Aust. J. Phys. 32, 61-70.
7. Melrose, D. B. 1980 Plasma Astrophysics: Nonthermal Processes in Diffuse Magnetized Plasmas. Volume I: The Emission, Absorption, and Transfer of Waves in Plasmas. Gordon & Breach, New York.
8. Melrose, D. B. 1997a Covariant form of Trubnikov's response tensor for a relativistic magnetized thermal plasma. J. Plasma Phys. 57, 479-488.
9. Melrose, D. B. 1997b Dispersion and birefringence in a synchrotron-emitting gas. Phys. Rev. E (in press).
10. Roberts, J. A., Roger, R. S., Ribes, J. C., Cooke, D. J., Murray, J. D., Cooper, R. F. C. and Biraud, F. 1975 Measurement of the circular polarization of radio sources at 0.63. 1.4. 5.0 and 8.9 GHz. Aust. J. Phys. 28, 325-351.
11. Sazonov, V. N. 1969 Polarization of normal waves and synchrotron radiation transfer in a relativistic plasma. Soviet Phys. JETP 29, 578-583.
12. Skilling, J. 1971 Signal dispersion and Faraday rotation in hot plasmas. Phys. Fluids 14, 2523-2531.
13. Trubnikov, B. A. 1958 Magnetic emission of high temperature plasma. Thesis, Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics [English translation in AEC-tr-4073. US Atomic Energy Commission. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1960].
14. Volokitin, A. S., Krasnoselskikh, V. V. and Maehabeli, G. Z. 1985 Waves in a relativistic electron-positron plasma in pulsar. Soviet J. Plasma Phys. 11, 531-538.