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The Problem of Energy Transfer in the Crab Nebula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. Machabeli
Affiliation:
Theoretical Dept., Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory of Georgian Academy of Sciences, Al. Kazbegi ave. 2a, 380060 Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
G. Mchedlishvili
Affiliation:
Theoretical Dept., Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory of Georgian Academy of Sciences, Al. Kazbegi ave. 2a, 380060 Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
D. Shapakidze
Affiliation:
Theoretical Dept., Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory of Georgian Academy of Sciences, Al. Kazbegi ave. 2a, 380060 Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

Abstract

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The possibility of Langmuir wave generation in electronpositron plasma is considered. As a result of induced scattering, these waves find themselves in the superluminal region. Thereby such waves can transfer energy to the Crab Nebula essentially without loss, where the remaining plasma creates condition of collapse of Langmuir waves. As a result, the tail of the e± distribution function stretchs out to Lorentz factors of the order of γ± ≤ 109. Via synchrotron emission, particles of these energies can radiate X and γ - radiation.

Type
Part 6 Winds and the ISM
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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