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A model for the energetic emission from pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Yu.E. Lyubarskii*
Affiliation:
Institute of Radio Astronomy, Krasnoznamyonnaya St.4, 310002, Kharkov, Ukraine

Abstract

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A current sheet separates, beyond the closed part of the pulsar magnetosphere, two half-spaces with oppositely directed magnetic fields. It is shown that reconnection in this sheet may provide a source for high-energy emission.

Type
Part 6. Emission and Plasma Theory
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

References

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