Curvature-drift instability fails to generate pulsar radio emission

Details Curvature-drift instability fails to generate pulsar radio emission Curvature-drift instability fails to generate pulsar radio emission

2010-08-29

arxiv.org/abs/1008.4922v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

to appear in ApJ

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The curvature drift instability has long been considered as a viable mechanism for pulsar radio emission. We reconsidered this mechanism by finding an explicit solution describing propagation of short-wave electro-magnetic waves in a plasma flow along curved magnetic field lines. We show that even though the waves could be amplified, the amplification factor remains very close to unity therefore this mechanism is unable to generate high brightness temperature emission from initial weak fluctuations.

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