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Reconnection in a striped pulsar wind
Y. Lyubarsky, J. G. Kirk
It is generally thought that most of the spin-down power of a pulsar is carried away in an MHD wind dominated by Poynting flux. In the case of an oblique rotator, a significant par…
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Particle acceleration at ultrarelativistic shocks: an eigenfunction method
J. G. Kirk, A. W. Guthmann, Y. A. Gallant +1
We extend the eigenfunction method of computing the power-law spectrum of particles accelerated at a relativistic shock fronts to apply to shocks of arbitrarily high Lorentz factor…