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Particle acceleration in the driven relativistic reconnection
Yuri Lyubarsky, Michael Liverts
We study the compression driven magnetic reconnection in the relativistic electron-positron plasma. Making use of a 2.5D particle-in-cell code, we simulated compression of a magnet…
Induced scattering of short radio pulses
Yuri Lyubarsky
Effect of the induced Compton and Raman scattering on short, bright radio pulses is investigated. It is shown that when a single pulse propagates through the scattering medium, the…
Magnetic reconnection at the termination shock in a striped pulsar wind
Jerome Petri, Yuri Lyubarsky
Most of the rotational luminosity of a pulsar is carried away by a relativistic magnetised wind in which the matter energy flux is negligible compared to the Poynting flux. Near th…
Long Term Cooling of Magnetar Crusts
David Eichler, Yuri Lyubarsky, Chryssa Kouveliotou +1
X-ray emission following giant flares of magnetars can be categorized into three categories of time scales (a) short term afterglow (b) medium term afterglow and (c) long term afte…
Electron-ion coupling upstream of relativistic collisionless shocks
Yuri Lyubarsky
It is argued and demonstrated by particle-in-cell simulations that the synchrotron maser instability could develop at the front of a relativistic, magnetized shock. The instability…
Are GRB shocks mediated by the Weibel instability?
Yuri Lyubarsky, David Eichler
It is estimated that the Weibel instability is not generally an effective mechanism for generating ultrarelativistic astrophysical shocks. Even if the upstream magnetic field is as…