Fast magnetosonic waves in pulsar winds

Details Fast magnetosonic waves in pulsar winds Fast magnetosonic waves in pulsar winds

2002-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211046v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 339 (2003) 765

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 1 eps figure, to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06221.x

Fast magnetosonic waves in a magnetically-dominated plasma are investigated. In the pulsar wind, these waves may transport a significant fraction of the energy flux. It is shown that the nonlinear steepening and subsequent formation of multiple shocks is a viable mechanism for the wave dissipation in the pulsar wind. The wave dissipation both in the free pulsar wind and beyond the wind termination shock is considered.

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