21 citations · 30 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
physics.pop-ph2008★ 1 cited
Messaging with Cost Optimized Interstellar Beacons
James Benford, Gregory Benford, Dominic Benford
This paper considers galactic scale Beacons from the point of view of expense to a builder on Earth. For fixed power density in the far field, what is the cost-optimum interstellar…
astro-ph2007★ 21 cited
Fossil AGN jets as ultra high energy particle accelerators
Gregory Benford, R. J. Protheroe
Remnants of AGN jets and their surrounding cocoons leave colossal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fossil structures storing total energies ~10^{60} erg. The original active galacic nucle…
astro-ph2006★ 8 cited
Stability of Magnetic Equilibria in Radio Balloons
Gregory Benford
Current-carrying flows, in the laboratory and in astrophysical jets, can form remarkably stable magnetic structures. Decades of experience shows that such flows often build equilib…