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Pulsar Winds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Wolfgang Kundt*
Affiliation:
Institut für Astrophysik der Universität Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, D-5300 Bonn

Abstract

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It is argued that pulsar windzones are pulsed γ-ray emitters, and X-ray emitters. The wind consists of a strong subluminal wave, in approximate equipartition with a relativistic electron-positron plasma; it also contains a weak frozen-in magnetic flux. Trailing filaments may be responsible for large-angle particle scattering, giving rise to one-sided X-ray appearance.

Type
I. Electrodynamics of the Pulsar Magnetosphere and Wave Zone
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981 

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