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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…
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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…