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arxiv: astro-ph/0504612 · v2 · pith:CTSKQMZHnew · submitted 2005-04-27 · 🌌 astro-ph

Self-consistent radiative effect on relativistic electromagnetic particle acceleration

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keywords accelerationradiationrelativisticdampingdrpaeffectfluxomega
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We study the radiation damping effect on the relativistic acceleration of electron-positron plasmas with two-and-half-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. Particles are accelerated by Poynting flux via the diamagnetic relativistic pulse accelerator (DRPA), and decelerated by the self-consistently solved radiation damping force. With $\Omega_{ce}/\omega_{pe}\geq 10$, the Lorentz factor of the highest energy particles reaches gamma>100, and the acceleration still continues. The emitted radiation is peaked within few degrees from the direction of Poynting flux and strongly linearly polarized, which may be detectable in gamma-ray burst(GRB) observations. We also show that the DRPA is insensitive to the initial supporting currents.

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