[P-EM17] Space Plasma Science

[PEM17-06] Propagation of Intense Electromagnetic Waves in Electron-Positron Plasmas

*Masanori Iwamoto¹, Kunihito Ioka¹ (1.Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

Keywords:plasma waves, parametric instability

Intence electromagnetic waves are subject to the nonlinear wave–plasma interactions, such as parametric instability, which has been widely studied in laboratory plasmas using cutting-edge laser pulses. Recently, the nonlinear interaction has attracted attention from astrophysics in the context of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). FRBs are extremely bright millisecond-duration pulses at radio frequency (Lorimer et al. 2007) and often show a high degree of linear polarization (e.g., Michilli et al. 2018). Magnetars are one of the promising progenitors (e.g., Andersen et al. 2020; Lyubarsky 2021) and thus the FRB radio pulse propagates through the magnetar wind, which consists of electron–positron plasmas. The nonlinear wave–plasma interaction between linearly polarized electromagnetic waves and electron–positron plasmas must be considered for the propagation of FRB radio pulses. In this study, we analytically derive the steady-state solution of the linearly polarized electromagnetic waves in cold pair plasmas for arbitrary wave amplitude and frequency. We will demonstrate the time evolution of the steady-state solution by using the particle-in-cell simulations and discuss the effect of the non-linear wave–plasma on the propagation of FRB radio pulses.