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Reconstructing Highly-twisted Magnetic Fields
Victor M. Demcsak, Michael S. Wheatland, Alpha Mastrano +1
We investigate the ability of a nonlinear force-free code to calculate highly-twisted magnetic field configurations using the Titov and Démoulin (1999) equilibrium field as a test…
A rotation-driven pulsar radio emission mechanism
D. B. Melrose, M. Z. Rafat, A. Mastrano
We propose and discuss an alternative pulsar radio emission mechanism that relies on rotation-driven plasma oscillations, rather than on a beam-driven instability, and suggest that…
Pulsar radio emission mechanisms: a critique
D. B. Melrose, M. Z. Rafat, A. Mastrano
We consider critically the three most widely favored pulsar radio emission mechanisms: coherent curvature emission (CCE), beam-driven relativistic plasma emission (RPE) and anomalo…
Wave dispersion in pulsar plasma: 3. Beam-driven instabilities
M. Z. Rafat, D. B. Melrose, A. Mastrano
Beam-driven instabilities are considered in a pulsar plasma assuming that both the background plasma and the beam are relativistic Jüttner distributions. In the rest frame of the b…
A weak coronal heating event associated with periodic particle acceleration episodes
Atul Mohan, Patrick I. McCauley, Alpha Mastrano +1
Weak heating events are frequent and ubiquitous in solar corona. They derive their energy from the local magnetic field and form a major source of local heating, signatures of whic…
Wave dispersion in pulsar plasma: 1. Plasma rest frame
M. Z. Rafat, D. B. Melrose, A. Mastrano
Wave dispersion in a pulsar plasma (a 1D, strongly magnetized, pair plasma streaming highly relativistically with a large spread in Lorentz factors in its rest frame) is discussed,…