Filamentation instability of interacting current sheets in striped relativistic winds: The origin of low sigma?

International Journal of Modern Physics D

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1419-1430

  Arons, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Current sheets; Pulsar winds

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849131813     PISSN: 02182718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271808012991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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