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Magnetohydrodynamic stability of magnetars in the ultrastrong field regime II: The crust
Peter B. Rau, Ira Wasserman
We study the stability of Hall MHD with strong magnetic fields in which Landau quantization of electrons is important. We find that the strong-field Hall modes can be destabilized…
Empirical Assessment of Aperiodic and Periodic Radio Bursts from Young Precessing Magnetars
J. M. Cordes, I. Wasserman, Shami Chatterjee +1
We analyze the slow periodicities identified in burst sequences from FRB 121102 and FRB 180916 with periods of about 16 and 160 d, respectively, while also addressing the absence o…
Magnetohydrodynamic stability of magnetars in the ultrastrong field regime I: The core
Peter B. Rau, Ira Wasserman
We study magnetohydrodynamic stability of neutron star core matter composed of neutrons, protons and leptons threaded by a magnetar-strength magnetic field -- G,…
Relativistic finite temperature multifluid hydrodynamics in a neutron star from a variational principle
Peter B. Rau, Ira Wasserman
We develop a relativistic multifluid dynamics appropriate for describing neutron star cores at finite temperatures based on Carter's convective variational procedure. The model inc…
Lensing of Fast Radio Bursts by Plasma Structures in Host Galaxies
J. M. Cordes, I. Wasserman, J. W. T. Hessels +3
Plasma lenses in the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) can strongly modulate FRB amplitudes for a wide range of distances, including the Gpc distance of the repeate…
Radio Wave Propagation and the Provenance of Fast Radio Bursts
J. M. Cordes, R. S. Wharton, L. G. Spitler +2
We analyze plasma dispersion and scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to identify the dominant locations of free electrons along their lines of sight and thus constrain the dista…