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Response of a Relativistically Streaming Pulsar Plasma
M. Z. Rafat, D. B. Melrose, V. M. Demcsak
The response tensor is derived for a relativistically streaming, strongly magnetized, one-dimensional Jüttner distribution of electrons and positrons, referred to as a pulsar plasm…
Self-stabilization of light sails by damped internal degrees of freedom
M. Z. Rafat, Holger R. Dullin, Boris T. Kuhlmey +7
We consider the motion of a light sail that is accelerated by a powerful laser beam. We derive the equations of motion for two proof-of-concept sail designs with damped internal de…
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…
Throwing at a wall
M. Z. Rafat, D. Dobie
We discuss a method for calculating using elastic collision between two masses and , with where is an integer, and a wall. The total…