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Non-relativistic axions can be efficiently produced in in the polar caps of pulsars, resulting in the formation of a dense cloud of gravitationally bound axions. Here, we investigate the interplay between such an axion cloud and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 Andrea Caputo , Samuel J. Witte , Alexander A. Philippov , Ted Jacobson

Persistent activity of magnetars is associated with electric discharge that continually injects relativistic particles into the magnetosphere. Large active magnetic loops around magnetars must be filled with outflowing particles that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Solar flares are known to be prolific electron accelerators, yet identifying the mechanism(s) for such efficient electron acceleration in solar flare (and similar astrophysical settings) presents a major challenge. This is due in part to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Galina G. Motorina , Brian R. Dennis

We examine if an efficient particle acceleration takes place by a magnetic-field-aligned electric field near the light cylinder in a rotating neutron star magnetosphere. Constructing the electric current density with the actual motion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Kouichi Hirotani

Transient phenomena in magnetars have been considered as possible acceleration sites of ultrahigh-energy cosmic-rays (CRs), whose energy reaches ~200 EeV, such as the Amaterasu particle. However, the process of CR acceleration and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Jiro Shimoda , Tomoki Wada

The available data of single X-ray pulsars, their wind nebulae, and the SNRs which are connected to some of these sources are analysed. It is shown that electric field intensity of neutron stars tears off charged particles from the surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oktay H. Guseinov , Askin Ankay , Sevinc O. Tagieva

Highly magnetised rapidly spinning neutron stars are widely considered to be natural sites for acceleration of charged particles. Powerful acceleration mechanism due to unipolar induction is thought to operate in the magnetospheres of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Rudak

We present a simple numerical model of the plasma flow within the open field line tube in the pulsar magnetosphere. We study how the plasma screens the rotationally induced electric field and maintains the electric current demanded by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Yuri Lyubarsky

We consider the voltage structure in the open-field circuit and outer magnetosphere of a magnetar. The standard polar-cap model for radio pulsars is modified significantly when the polar magnetic field exceeds 1.8x10^{14} G. Pairs are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Thompson

Synchrotron radiation is widely considered as the origin of the pulsed non-thermal emissions from rotation-powered pulsars in optical and X-ray bands. In this paper, we study the synchrotron radiation emitted by the created electron and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Shota Kisaka , Shuta J. Tanaka

We analytically study the properties of the electromagnetic field in vacuum around close binary compact stars containing at least one neutron star. We show that the orbital motion of the neutron star induces high multipole modes of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Tomoki Wada , Masaru Shibata , Kunihito Ioka

A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission mechanisms in the pulsar magnetospheres. We solve distribution of the accelerating electric field with the emission process and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , S. Shibata

The motion of electrons and positrons in the vacuum magnetosphere of a neutron star with a surface magnetic field of B~10^12 G is considered. Particles created in the magnetosphere or falling into it from outside are virtually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-17 Ya. N. Istomin , D. N. Sob'yanin

The twisted magnetospheres of magnetars must sustain a persistent flow of electron-positron plasma. The flow dynamics is controlled by the radiation field around the hot neutron star. The problem of plasma motion in the self-consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Understanding the physics of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) presents a number of challenges compared to that of the non-recycled pulsar population. Even though their fast rotation rates can produce high spin-down power and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Alice K. Harding

The main issue of the pulsar magnetosphere is how the rotation power is converted into both particle beams which causes pulsed emissions, and a highly relativistic wind of electron-positron plasmas which forms surrounding nebulae shining in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Tomohide Wada , Shinpei Shibata

(shortened) We report the results of an investigation of particle acceleration and electron-positron plasma generation at low altitude in the polar magnetic flux tubes of Rotation Powered Pulsars, when the stellar surface is free to emit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. N. Timokhin , J. Arons

Magnetic field of rotating pulsar might be so strong that the equation of state (EOS) of neutron star (NS) matter is significantly affected by the spin polarization of baryons. In the present work, the EOS of the spin-polarized nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Ngo Hai Tan , Dao T. Khoa , Doan Thi Loan

Unpulsed, high-energy emission from pulsar binaries can be attributed to the interaction of a pulsar wind with that of a companion star. At the shock between the outflows, particles carried away from the pulsar magnetosphere are accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Iwona Mochol , John G. Kirk

Neutron star magnetic fields may have polar caps (PC) that are offset from the dipole axis, through field-line sweepback near the light cylinder or non-symmetric currents within the star. The effects of such offsets on electron-positron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Alice K. Harding , Alex G. Muslimov