Speaker
Andrey Timokhin
(University of Zielona Gora)
Description
Radio pulsars are quintessential high-energy astrophysics objects. They emit most of
their energy in gamma-rays, accelerate particles to very high energies and produce
dense relativistic plasma. Despite decades-long efforts, we still do not have a
consistent model of radio pulsars, though significant progress has been achieved in
the last two decades thanks to advances in numerical models of pulsar magnetospheres.
I will give a brief overview of the most recent development in the modeling of physical
processes in pulsar magnetospheres using kinetic plasma simulations. The main
emphasis will be on modeling pulsar polar caps, where most of the plasma in
the magnetosphere and the pulsar wind is produced.
Primary author
Andrey Timokhin
(University of Zielona Gora)
