Excitation of wakefield around pulsars

TL;DR

This paper investigates how high-energy radiation from pulsars generates wakefields, revealing that wave-like structures form near pulsars through a simplified one-dimensional model.

Contribution

It introduces a linearized one-dimensional framework to analyze wakefield generation by pulsar radiation, highlighting the inevitable formation of wave-like structures.

Findings

Wave-like structures form near pulsars due to radiation.

Wakefields are generated through linearized equations.

The study provides a simplified model for pulsar wakefield analysis.

Abstract

We study the generation of the wakefields by means of the high energy radiation of pulsars. The problem is considered in the framework of a one dimensional approach. We linearize the set of governing equations consisting of the momentum equation, continuity equation an Poisson equation and show that a wavelike structure will inevitably arise relatively close to the pulsar.