Corotating light cylinders and Alfv\'en waves
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-05-19 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
Exact relativistic force free fields with cylindrical symmetry are explored. Such fields are generated in the interstellar gas via their connection to pulsar magnetospheres both inside and outside their light cylinders. The possibility of much enhanced interstellar fields wound on cylinders of Solar system dimensions is discussed but these are most likely unstable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1008.5341,
title = {Corotating light cylinders and Alfv\'en waves},
author = {K. N. Gourgouliatos and D. Lynden-Bell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.5341},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS