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Eight pulsars have low braking indices, which challenge the magnetic dipole braking of pulsars. 222 pulsars and 15 magnetars have abnormal distribution of frequency second derivatives, which also make contradiction with classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Z. W. Ou , H. Tong , F. F. Kou , G. Q. Ding

Recently, Beloborodov suggested that there exists a resonance phenomenon between an extremely intense electromagnetic wave and internal magnetized particles. The particles exchange energy with the wave at frequent resonance events and then…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Yu-Chen Huang , Shu-Qing Zhong , Zi-Gao Dai

We address the existence, stability, and propagation dynamics of multipole-mode solitons in cubic-quintic nonlinear media with an imprinted annular (ring-shaped) potential. The interplay of the competing nonlinearity with the potential…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-06 Liangwei Dong , Mingjing Fan , Changming Huang , Boris A. Malomed

Symmetric electron-positron plasmas in inhomogeneous magnetic fields are intrinsically subject to interchange instability and transport. Scaling relations for the propagation velocity of density blob perturbations relevant to transport in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Alexander Kendl , Gregor Danler , Matthias Wiesenberger , Markus Held

In neutron star (NS) magnetospheres, plasma waves propagate as normal modes with distinct propagation dynamics that strongly influence observable signals. This letter presents a unified theory of linear mode conversion between Alfv'en (A),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Dawei Dai , Ashley Bransgrove , Anirudh Prabhu , Jens F. Mahlmann

The nonlinear propagation of internal gravity waves in the weakly ionized, incompressible Earth's ionosphere is studied using the fluid theory approach. Previous theory in the literature is advanced by the effects of the terrestrial…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 T. D. Kaladze , A. P. Misra , A. Roy , D. Chatterjee

The neutron-proton-electron(npe) matter under a strong magnetic field is studied in the context of the covariant Vlasov approach. We use a Walecka-type hadronic model and the dispersion relations for the longitudinal and transverse modes…

An oblique pulsar magnetosphere with a plasma conductivity is studied by using a pseudo-spectral method. In the pseudo-spectral method, the time-dependent Maxwell equations are solved, both electric and magnetic fields are expanded in terms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Gang Cao , Li Zhang , Sineng Sun

The stationary axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere of a pulsar is considered. We present an exact dipolar solution of the pulsar equation, construct the magnetospheric model on its basis and examine its observational support. The new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-30 S. A. Petrova

The magnetosphere of a pulsar is composed of relativistic plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We study the intrinsic Faraday rotation in the pulsar magnetosphere by critically examining the wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chen Wang , Jinlin Han , Dong Lai

Important efforts are currently made for understanding the so-called kinetic instabilities, driven by the anisotropy of different species of plasma particles present in the solar wind and terrestrial magnetosphere. These instabilities are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 S. M. Shaaban , M. Lazar , R. A. López , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

We study numerically the outcome of the phase separation instability of a dual-species Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice. When only one excitation mode is unstable a bound pair of a bright and dark soliton-like structures…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-06 Uttam Shrestha , Juha Javanainen , Janne Ruostekoski

Old neutron stars (ONSs) which have radiated away their internal and rotational energy may still shine if accreting the interstellar medium. Rather stringent limits from the analysis of ROSAT surveys indicate that most optimistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Treves , M. Colpi , R. Turolla , S. Zane

The selfgenerated wave fluctuations are particularly interesting in the solar wind and magnetospheric plasmas, where Coulomb collisions are rare and cannot explain the observed states of quasi-equilibrium. Linear theory predicts that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Lazar , S. Poedts , R. Schlickeiser , D. Ibscher

We analyze the stability of a thin plasma disk which is rotating around a compact astrophysical object and is embedded in the strong magnetic field of such a source. The aim of this study is the determination of a new type of unstable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Benini , Nakia Carlevaro , Alessio Franco

The fundamental higher-order Landau plasma modes are known to be generally heavily damped. We show that these modes for the ion component in a weakly ionized plasma can be substantially modified by ion-neutral collisions and a dc electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Roman Kompaneets , Alexei V. Ivlev , Sergey V. Vladimirov , Gregor E. Morfill

Modifications to polar-gap models for pulsars are discussed for the case where the surface magnetic field, $B_\S$, of the neutron star is strong. For $B\ga4\times10^8\rm\,T$, the curvature $\gamma$-quanta emitted tangentially to the curved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. V. Usov , D. B. Melrose

We investigate induced Compton scattering of a circularly polarized Alfv\'en wave propagating in a magnetized electron-positron pair plasma using one-dimensional Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations. In this system, two distinct modes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Shoma F. Kamijima , Rei Nishiura , Masanori Iwamoto , Kunihito Ioka

In binary radio pulsar system J0737-3039, slow pulsar B shows orbital modulations of intensity, being especially bright at two short orbital phases. We propose that these modulations are due to distortion of pulsar B magnetosphere by pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maxim Lyutikov

R-modes of a rotating neutron star are unstable because of the emission of gravitational radiation. We explore the saturation amplitudes of these modes determined by nonlinear mode-mode coupling. Modelling the star as incompressible allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeandrew Brink , Saul A. Teukolsky , Ira Wasserman