Kuznetsov V.I., Bakaleinikov L.A., Flegontova E.Yu. «Stability of steady states of plasma diodes with counter-streaming electron and positron flows» Научно-технические ведомости Санкт-Петербургского государственного политехнического университета. Физико-математические науки, 16, № S1.2, с. 442-448 (2023)

Stability of steady states of a planar geometry diode with counter flows of electrons and positrons is studied. The study is related to the elucidation of pulsar RF radiation nature. The equation for the electric field perturbation is derived. Its exact solution is obtained for the case of a homogeneous steady-state field. The study of the dispersion equation obtained has shown that there is a threshold for the inter-electrode gap value, above which steady-state solutions are unstable. The instability threshold turned out to be √2 times higher than the known Pierce threshold.

Ridnaia A.V., Frederiks D.D., Svinkin D.S., Lysenko A.L., Tsvetkova A.E., Ulanov M.V. «Search for gamma-ray counterparts to FRBs in Konus-Wind data» Научно-технические ведомости Санкт-Петербургского государственного политехнического университета. Физико-математические науки, 16, № S1.2, с. 474-479 (2023)

We report preliminary results of the search in the Konus-Wind experiment data for hard X-ray/soft γ-ray emission in coincidence with publicly reported fast radio bursts (FRBs). We find no significant associations for any of the 581 FRBs in our sample and report upper limits to the high-energy fluence/peak flux for three spectral shapes, which generally describe short GRB, long GRB and magnetar giant flare spectra. In addition to study each individual FRB, we perform a stacking analysis of the bursts from each repeating source in our sample and a separate stacking analysis of the bursts from the non-repeating FRBs. We find no statistically significant excess of the cumulative emission over background level for either case.