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Pulsar Geometrodynamics: Relativistic Radiative Plasma Theory and its Associated Quantum Phenomena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

A. A. da Costa
A. A. da Costa*
Affiliation:
Centro de Electrodinâmica, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

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Plasma motion in pulsar magnetospheres is quasi-classical due to curvature radiation of highly energetic gamma-ray photons, implying an extension to the kinetic theory of plasmas. But with high energies involved, other quantum radiative processes become important in the context of vacuum (quantum) electrodynamics.

Type
Part II: Posters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 195: Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms , 2000 , pp. 385 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 

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