Generation of nanoflares in the Crab pulsar

2017/12/13 by G. Z. Machabeli, Machabeli, G., И. Ф. Малов +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1712.04935

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Abstract

We study dynamics of drift waves in the pair plasma of pulsar magnetosphere. It is shown that nonlinear of the drift waves with plasma particles leads to the formation of small scale structures. We show that cyclotron instability developed within these nonlinear structures can be responsible for the formation of nanoshots discovered in the radio emission of the Crab pulsar.

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