7 papers
Acceleration and Dissipation in Relativistic Winds
Jonathan Arons
I argue that ideal MHD relativistic winds are always limited in practice to asymptotic 4-velocity and asymptotic magnetization ,…
Theory of Pulsar Winds
Jonathan Arons
I discuss recent work on the nature of relativistic winds from Rotation Powered Pulsars, on the physics of how they transport energy from the central compact object to the surrroun…
Simulations of pulsar wind formation
Anatoly Spitkovsky, Jonathan Arons
We present initial results of the first self-consistent numerical model of the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar. By using the relativistic ``particle-in-cell'' method with special b…
Chandra observations of PSR B1509-58 and Supernova Remnant G320.4-1.2
B. M. Gaensler, J. Arons, M. J. Pivovaroff +1
The young and energetic pulsar B1509-58 powers a bright X-ray synchrotron nebula, embedded in the unusual supernova remnant G320.4-1.2. We present observations of this system with…
Pulsar Death at an Advanced Age
Jonathan Arons
I summarize the theory of acceleration of non-neutral particle beams by starvation electric fields along the polar magnetic field lines of rotation powered pulsars, including the e…
Discovery of kHz Fluctuations in Centaurus X-3: Evidence for Photon Bubble Oscillations (PBO) and Turbulence in a High Mass X-ray Binary Pulsar
J. Garrett Jernigan, Richard I. Klein, Jonathan Arons
We report the discovery of kHz fluctuations, including quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) at ~330 Hz and ~760 Hz and a broadband kHz continuum in the power density spectrum of the h…