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On the evolution of interacting, magnetized, galactic plasmas

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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.

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  1. Intense Particle Beam Theory Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

    Anthony L. Peratt

  2. Institute for Plasma Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    James C. Green

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Peratt, A.L., Green, J.C. On the evolution of interacting, magnetized, galactic plasmas. Astrophys Space Sci 91, 19–33 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00650210

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