Rates of reconnection in pulsar winds

Details Rates of reconnection in pulsar winds Rates of reconnection in pulsar winds

2002-10-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210353v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to MNRAS Letters

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Using the formulation of relativistic reconnection by Lyutikov & Uzdensky (2002) we estimate the upper possible rates of reconnection in pulsar winds using Bohm prescription for resistivity. We find that the velocity of plasma inflow into the reconnection layer may be relativistic, of the order of the speed of light in the plasma rest-frame. This in principle may allow efficient dissipation of the magnetic field energy in the wind and/or destruction of the toroidal magnetic flux. The efficiency of reconnection realized in pulsar winds remains an open question: it should depend both on the microphysical properties of plasma and on the three-dimensional structure of the reconnection flow.

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