Vacuum nonlinear electrodynamic polarization effects in hard emission of pulsars and magnetars
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1475-7516
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/09/004