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astro-ph.HE2015★ 41 cited
Crab flares due to turbulent dissipation of the pulsar striped wind
Jonathan Zrake
We interpret -ray flares from the Crab Nebula as the signature of turbulence in the pulsar's electromagnetic outflow. Turbulence is triggered upstream by dynamical instability o…
astro-ph.HE2015★ 41 cited
Freely decaying turbulence in force-free electrodynamics
Jonathan Zrake, William E. East
Freely decaying relativistic force-free turbulence is studied for the first time. We initiate the magnetic field at a short wavelength and simulate its relaxation toward equilibriu…
astro-ph.HE2015★ 27 cited
Spontaneous decay of periodic magnetostatic equilibria
William E. East, Jonathan Zrake, Yajie Yuan +1
In order to understand the conditions which lead a highly magnetized, relativistic plasma to become unstable, and in such cases how the plasma evolves, we study a prototypical clas…