FILAMENTATION INSTABILITY OF INTERACTING CURRENT SHEETS IN STRIPED RELATIVISTIC WINDS: THE ORIGIN OF LOW SIGMA?

DOI10.1142/S0218271808012991zbMATH Open1173.85309OpenAlexW1992504706MaRDI QIDQ3631107FDOQ3631107

Authors Jonathan Arons

Publication date 5 June 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5261

zbMATH Keywords

current sheetspulsar winds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Abstract: I outline a mechanism, akin to Weibel instabilities of interpenetrating beams, in which the neighboring current sheets in a striped wind from an oblique rotator interact through a two stream-like mechanism (a Weibel instability in flatland), to create an anomalous resistivity that heats the sheets and causes the magnetic field to diffusively annihilate in the wind upstream of the termination shock. The heating has consequences for observable unpulsed emission from pulsars.

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