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On the Magnetosphere of an Accelerated Pulsar

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-17 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We report on a remarkable class of exact solutions to force-free electrodynamics that has four-current along the light cones of an arbitrary timelike worldline in flat spacetime. No symmetry is assumed, and the solutions are given in terms of a free function of three variables. The field configuration should describe the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar moving on the worldline. The power radiated is the sum of an acceleration (Larmor-type) term and a pulsar-type term.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0752,
  title  = {On the Magnetosphere of an Accelerated Pulsar},
  author = {T. Daniel Brennan and Samuel E. Gralla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0752},
  year   = {2015}
}

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