ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Illuminating neutron stars with radiative plasma physics
This research program will use first-principles radiative plasma simulations to understand how neutron stars radiate. Neutron stars are the culprits of the most infamous astrophysical emission enigmas: 1) pulsar radio emission, 2) multi-messenger signals of compact-object binary mergers, and 3) simultaneous generation of giant flares and fast radio bursts from magnetars. These emission mechanisms have remained elusive because we do not have a self-consistent theory that combines plasma physics (describing microscopic motions and energy dissipation of the magnetized gas) and radiative processes (describing the reprocessing of the energy into radiation). This project combines the forefront…
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