PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 417 - 7th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2022) - Contributed posters
On the Propagation of Relativistic Shocks in Conductive Media
A. Loules* and N. Vlahakis
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Pre-published on: November 06, 2023
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Abstract
Relativistic shocks have a central role in high energy astrophysical phenomena, with Gamma-Ray Bursts being the most prominent example. Their propagation in perfectly conductive plasmas has been extensively studied. In the present work we extend the analysis by assuming a finite electrical conductivity for the propagation medium and a finite thickness for the shock front. These two assumptions necessitate the inclusion of an additional jump condition derived through the covariant Gauss-Ampère Law and introduce a dimensionless parameter which depends on the electrical conductivity of the plasma in the shock front, the shock thickness, as well as on the shock's propagation four-velocity. We show that this parameter determines the degree to which the shock interacts with the propagation medium’s electromagnetic field and governs shock dynamics.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.417.0200
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