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Free electron laser in guide-field dominated regimes of magnetars

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Abstract

We develop a model of the generation of coherent radio emission in the magneosphers of magnetars with nearly critical magnetic field, in application to fast radio bursts (FRBs). Emission is produced by a reconnection-generated beam of particles in a weakly turbulent, guide field-dominated plasma. The model is robust to the underlying plasma parameters (energy spread of the beam and non-harminoc wiggler fields), and succeeds in reproducing a number of subtle observed features (like both broadband emission and the presence of emission stripes, spectral and polariation properties)

Publication: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...922..166L/abstract

Presenters

  • Maxim Y Lyutikov

    Purdue University, Purdue Univ.

Authors

  • Maxim Y Lyutikov

    Purdue University, Purdue Univ.