Physical review letters
Global Kinetic Simulations of Monster Shocks and Their Emission.
Dominic Bernardi, Yajie Yuan, Alexander Y Chen
Published: 202510.1103/y9p7-1zms
Abstract
Fast magnetosonic waves are one of the two low-frequency plasma modes that can exist in a neutron star magnetosphere. It was recently realized that these waves may become nonlinear within the magnetosphere and steepen into some of the strongest shock…
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