Relativistic excitation of envelope solitons in electron-positron plasmas of the pulsar magnetosphere
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 38 (11) , 5935-5937
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.38.5935
Abstract
The nonlinear propagation of an external magnetic-field-aligned circularly polarized electromagnetic wave in electron-positron plasma is investigated. Relativistic and the time-derivative ponderomotive nonlinearities are considered. A new kind of envelope soliton in the magnetoactive plasma is obtained. A large-amplitude localized electromagnetic radiation may exist in the pulsar magnetosphere.Keywords
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