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Direct Emission of Strong Radio Pulses During Magnetar Flares
Christopher Thompson
The emission of intense radio pulses by flaring magnetars is investigated. Small-scale current gradients can be imprinted into a strongly magnetized outflow by the same processes t…
Radio Emission of Pulsars. II. Coherence Catalyzed by Cerenkov-Unstable Shear Alfvén Waves
Christopher Thompson
This paper explores small-scale departures from force-free electrodynamics around a rotating neutron star, extending our treatment of resistive instability in a quantizing magnetic…
Radio Emission of Pulsars. I. Slow Tearing of a Quantizing Magnetic Field
Christopher Thompson
The pulsed radio emission of rotating neutron stars is connected to slow resistive instabilities feeding off an inhomogeneous twist profile within the open circuit. This paper cons…
Pair Plasma in Super-QED Magnetic Fields and the Hard X-ray/Optical Emission of Magnetars
Christopher Thompson, Alexander Kostenko
The photon spectrum emitted by a transrelativistic pair plasma is calculated in the presence of an ultrastrong magnetic field, and is shown to bear a remarkable resemblance to the…
QED Phenomena in an Ultrastrong Magnetic Field. II. Electron-Positron Scattering, -Ion Scattering, and Relativistic Bremsstrahlung
Alexander Kostenko, Christopher Thompson
This paper continues the approach of Kostenko \& Thompson to calculating quantum electrodynamic processes in the ultrastrong magnetic field near some neutron stars, such as magneta…
QED Phenomena in an Ultrastrong Magnetic Field. I. Electron-Photon Scattering, Pair Creation, and Annihilation
Alexander Kostenko, Christopher Thompson
We evaluate several basic electrodynamic processes as modified by the presence of a very strong magnetic field, exceeding G. These resu…