Particle acceleration zones above pulsar polar caps: Electron and positron pair formation fronts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 508, Issue 1 PART I, 1998, Pages 328-346

  Harding, Alice K ^a   Muslimov, Alexander G ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; MHD; Pulsars: general; Stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444453274     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/306394     Document Type: Article

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