Toward resolving the crab σ-problem: A linear accelerator?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 566, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 336-342

  Contopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Kazanas, Demosthenes ^b  

^a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ^*  (Greece)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Magnetic fields; MHD; Pulsars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038350405     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324778     Document Type: Article

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