This is a study of drift waves in the electron-positron plasma of the magnetosphere of a pulsar. It is shown that the nonlinear interaction of the drift waves with the plasma particles leads to the formation of small-scale structures. The cyclotron instability which develops in these structures may be the reason for the formation of the nano-outbursts discovered in the radio emission of a pulsar in the Crab nebula.
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Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 133-142, February 2021.
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Machabeli, G., Malov, I., Gogoberidze, G. et al. Generation of Nano-Outbursts in Pulsar Emission in the Crab Nebula. Astrophysics 64, 117–125 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10511-021-09673-4
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