Charged particle escapes from uniformly magnetized Newtonian centers

Authors

  • John Rommel V. Oidem ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Michael Francis Ian G. Vega II ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

We analyze the motion of a charged particle orbiting a Newtonian point mass permeated by a uniform magnetic field. Specifically, we focus on studying the escapes from the system, which may be relevant to understanding astrophysical jets. We find the typical definition of escape to no longer apply in our system, and we motivate and adopt a new definition based on the limiting case of cyclotronic motion in a uniform magnetic field. With this definition of escape, we calculate the escape times of charged particles that are vertical kicked from the equator, and map out how these escape times depend on the conserved energy and angular momentum on a particular slice of phase space.

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Article ID

SPP-2022-1B-06

Section

Cosmology and Astrophysics

Published

2022-09-30

How to Cite

[1]
JRV Oidem and MFIG Vega, Charged particle escapes from uniformly magnetized Newtonian centers, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 40, SPP-2022-1B-06 (2022). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2022-1B-06.