Topics in Microphysics of Relativistic Plasmas |
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Authors: | Maxim Lyutikov A Lazarian |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Physics, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2036, USA 2. INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri Largo, Enrico Fermi 5, 50125, Firenze, Italy 3. The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H8, Canada 4. Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 Charter St., Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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Abstract: | Astrophysical plasmas can have parameters vastly different from the more studied laboratory and space plasmas. In particular, the magnetic fields can be the dominant component of the plasma, with energy-density exceeding the particle rest-mass energy density. Magnetic fields then determine the plasma dynamical evolution, energy dissipation and acceleration of non-thermal particles. Recent data coming from astrophysical high energy missions, like magnetar bursts and Crab nebula flares, point to the importance of magnetic reconnection in these objects. In this review we outline a broad spectrum of problems related to the astrophysical relevant processes in magnetically dominated relativistic plasmas. We discuss the problems of large scale dynamics of relativistic plasmas, relativistic reconnection and particle acceleration at reconnecting layers, turbulent cascade in force-fee plasmas. A number of astrophysical applications are also discussed. |
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