Filamentation Instability of Interacting Current Sheets in Striped Relativistic Winds: The Origin of Low Sigma?

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dc.creatorArons, Jonathan
dc.date2007-10-28
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dc.descriptionI 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.
dc.description7 pages, 9 figures. To be published in the proceedings of ``40 Years of Pulsars''
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5261
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5261
dc.identifierAIPConf.Proc.983:200-206,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2900141
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/191465
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleFilamentation Instability of Interacting Current Sheets in Striped Relativistic Winds: The Origin of Low Sigma?
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