title: Millisecond newly born pulsars as efficient accelerators of electrons.
abstract: The newly born millisecond pulsars are investigated as possible energy sources for creating ultra-high energy electrons. The transfer of energy from the star rotation to high energy electrons takes place through the Landau damping of centrifugally driven (via a two stream instability) electrostatic Langmuir waves. Generated in the bulk magnetosphere plasma, such waves grow to high amplitudes, and then damp, very effectively, on relativistic electrons driving them to even higher energies. We show that the rate of transfer of energy is so efficient that no energy losses might affect the mechanism of particle acceleration; the electrons might achieve energies of the order of 10(18) eV for parameters characteristic of a young star.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, Free University of Tbilisi, 0183-Tbilisi, Georgia.
authors.forename: Zaza
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Osmanov
authors.affiliation: Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712.
authors.forename: Swadesh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.affiliation: Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, ITP, Ilia State University, 0162-Tbilisi, Georgia.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Machabeli
authors.affiliation: Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, ITP, Ilia State University, 0162-Tbilisi, Georgia.
authors.forename: Nino
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chkheidze