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The magnetron instability in a pulsar's cylindrical electrosphere
Jerome Petri
(abridged) The physics of the pulsar magnetosphere remains poorly constrained by observations. Little is known about their emission mechanism. Large vacuum gaps probably exist, and…
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…
Relativistic stabilisation of the diocotron instability in a pulsar "cylindrical" electrosphere
J. Petri
In a previous work, we showed that the differentially rotating equatorial disk in the pulsar's electrosphere is diocotron unstable in the non-relativistic regime. In this paper, we…
The theory of pulsar winds and nebulae
J. G. Kirk, Y. Lyubarsky, J. Petri
We review current theoretical ideas on pulsar winds and their surrounding nebulae. Relativistic MHD models of the wind of the aligned rotator, and of the striped wind, together wit…
Numerical solution of the linear dispersion relation in a relativistic pair plasma
J Petri, J G Kirk
We describe an algorithm that computes the linear dispersion relation of waves and instabilities in relativistic plasmas within a Vlasov-Maxwell description. The method used is ful…