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Electron Acceleration in the Crab Nebula
Gwenael Giacinti, John G. Kirk
We study electron and positron acceleration at the termination shock of a striped pulsar wind. Drift motion along the shock surface keeps either electrons or positrons -but not bot…
astro-ph.HE2019★ 4 cited
Inductive acceleration of ions in Poynting-flux dominated outflows
John G. Kirk, Gwenael Giacinti
Two-fluid (electron-positron) plasma modelling has shown that inductive acceleration can convert Poynting flux directly into bulk kinetic energy in the relativistic flows driven by…