Relativistic Plasma Astrophysics: Pulsars, IDVs and transients

相对论等离子体天体物理学：脉冲星、IDV和瞬变。我们将解决理论天体物理中的四个基本问题。被称为脉冲星的小型死亡恒星是如何产生射电辐射的？为什么类星体，宇宙中最遥远的物体，会在射电波长上闪烁？猛烈的伽马射线爆发和其他天体物理爆炸之间有什么关系？为什么强磁化脉冲星在辐射高能光子方面如此高效？我们将通过发展超强磁场中相干发射、闪烁、粒子加速和过程的新理论来解决这些问题，并将它们与观测结果进行验证。

Relativistic Plasma Astrophysics: Pulsars, IDVs and transients. We will tackle four fundamental problems in theoretical astrophysics. How do small, dead stars known as pulsars produce radio emission? Why do quasars, the most distant objects in the universe, twinkle at radio wavelengths? What is the relationship between violent bursts of gamma-ray emission and other astrophysical explosions? Why are strongly magnetized pulsars so efficient at radiating high energy photons? We will attack these questions by developing new theories for coherent emission, scintillation, particle acceleration and processes in superstrong magnetic fields, and testing them against observations