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Spreading layers in accreting objects: role of acoustic waves for angular momentum transport, mixing and thermodynamics
Alexander A. Philippov, Roman R. Rafikov, James M. Stone
Disk accretion at high rate onto a white dwarf or a neutron star has been suggested to result in the formation of a spreading layer (SL) - a belt-like structure on the object's sur…
Modeling high-energy pulsar lightcurves from first principles
Benoît Cerutti, Alexander A. Philippov, Anatoly Spitkovsky
Current models of gamma-ray lightcurves in pulsars suffer from large uncertainties on the precise location of particle acceleration and radiation. Here, we present an attempt to al…
Ab-initio pulsar magnetosphere: the role of general relativity
Alexander A. Philippov, Benoît Cerutti, Alexander Tchekhovskoy +1
It has recently been demonstrated that self-consistent particle-in-cell simulations of low-obliquity pulsar magnetospheres in flat spacetime show weak particle acceleration and no…
Evolution of non-spherical pulsars with plasma-filled magnetospheres
Lev Arzamasskiy, Alexander Philippov, Alexander Tchekhovskoy
Pulsars are famous for their rotational stability. Most of them steadily spin down and display a highly repetitive pulse shape. But some pulsars experience timing irregularities su…
Three-dimensional Analytical Description of Magnetised Winds from Oblique Pulsars
Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Alexander Philippov, Anatoly Spitkovsky
Rotating neutron stars, or pulsars, are plausibly the source of power behind many astrophysical systems, such as gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, pulsar wind nebulae and supernova rem…