CREMASCHINI, Claudio, Zdeněk STUCHLÍK and Massimo TESSAROTTO. Covariant formulation of spatially non-symmetric kinetic equilibria in magnetized astrophysical plasmas. PHYSICS OF PLASMAS. US - Spojené státy americké, 2014, vol. 21, No 5, p. "052901-1"-"052901-15", 15 pp. ISSN 1070-664X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4874324.
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Original name Covariant formulation of spatially non-symmetric kinetic equilibria in magnetized astrophysical plasmas
Authors CREMASCHINI, Claudio, Zdeněk STUCHLÍK and Massimo TESSAROTTO.
Edition PHYSICS OF PLASMAS, US - Spojené státy americké, 2014, 1070-664X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10305 Fluids and plasma physics
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4874324
UT WoS 000337107200046
Keywords in English astrophysical plasmas; kinetic equilibrium; compact objects; gravitational field
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Links GB14-37086G, research and development project. GP14-07753P, research and development project.
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Abstract
Astrophysical plasmas in the surrounding of compact objects and subject to intense gravitational and electromagnetic fields are believed to give rise to relativistic regimes. Theoretical and observational evidences suggest that magnetized plasmas of thistype are collisionless and can persist for long times (e.g., with respect to a distant observer, coordinate, time), while exhibiting geometrical structures characterized by the absence of well-defined spatial symmetries. In this paper, the problem is posed whether such configurations can correspond to some kind of kinetic equilibrium. The issue is addressed from a theoretical perspective in the framework of a covariant Vlasov statistical description, which relies on the method of invariants. For this purpose, a systematic covariant variational formulation of gyrokinetic theory is developed, which holds without requiring any symmetry condition on the background fields. As a result, an asymptotic representation of the relativistic partic
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