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The stationary axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere of a pulsar is studied analytically. The pulsar equation is solved in the region close to the magnetic axis. Proceeding from linearization of the current function in the axial region, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 S. A. Petrova

In this paper we present the results of time-dependent simulations of dipolar axisymmetric magnetospheres of neutron stars carried out both within the framework of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics and within the framework of resistive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. S. Komissarov

The dipolar magnetic field structure of the neutron star is modified by the plasma originating in the pulsar magnetopshere. In the simplest case of a stationary axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere, a self-consistent description of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 S. A. Petrova

We conduct force-free simulations of a single neutron star undergoing orbital motion in flat spacetime, mimicking the trajectory of the star about the center of mass on a compact binary system. Our attention is focused on the kinetic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Federico Carrasco , Masaru Shibata

In this poster we present the structure of an axisymmetric, force-free magnetosphere of a twisted, aligned rotating dipole within a corotating plasma-filled magnetosphere. We explore various profiles for the twist. We find that as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Dimitris Ntotsikas , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

(abridged) Pulsar activity and its related radiation mechanism are usually explained by invoking some plasma processes occurring inside the magnetosphere. Despite many detailed local investigations, the global electrodynamics around those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Pétri

We present, for the first time, the structure of the axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotating magnetic dipole, in the case in which there exists a sufficiently large charge density (whose origin we do not question) to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Christian Fendt

We present a detailed analysis of the properties of twisted, force-free magnetospheres of non-rotating neutron stars, which are of interest in the modelling of magnetar properties and evolution. In our models the magnetic field smoothly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 Taner Akgün , Juan Antonio Miralles , José A. Pons , Pablo Cerdá-Durán

A magnetar's magnetosphere gradually evolves by the injection of energy and helicity from the interior. Axisymmetric static solutions for a relativistic force-free magnetosphere with a power-law current model are numerically obtained. They…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Yasufumi Kojima , Satoki Okamoto

Magnetar magnetospheres gradually become twisted due to shearing by footpoint motion. The axisymmetric solutions for the force-free field with a power-law current model are calculated by taking into account general relativistic effects.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Yasufumi Kojima

The luminosity and structure of neutron star magnetospheres are crucial to our understanding of pulsar and plerion emission. A solution found using the force-free approximation would be an interesting standard with which any model with more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan C. McKinney

We present solutions of force-free pulsar magnetospheres coupled with a uniform external magnetic field aligned with the dipole magnetic moment of the pulsar. The inclusion of the uniform magnetic field has the following consequences: The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Donald Lynden-Bell

We perform first-principles relativistic particle-in-cell simulations of aligned pulsar magnetosphere. We allow free escape of particles from the surface of a neutron star and continuously populate the magnetosphere with neutral pair plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-08 Alexander Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Neutron star electromagnetic activity produces pairs that fill their magnetosphere represented to the zeroth order by the force-free approximation. Neither dissipation nor acceleration nor radiation from charged particles is expected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Jérôme Pétri

We investigate in details properties of stationary force-free magnetosphere of aligned rotator assuming the last closed field line lying in equatorial plane at large distances from pulsar. The pulsar equations is solved numerically using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. N. Timokhin

Just as a rotating magnetised neutron star has material pulled away from its surface to populate a magnetosphere, a similar process can occur as a result of neutron-star pulsations rather than rotation. This is of interest in connection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Ernazar B. Abdikamalov , Bobomurat J. Ahmedov , John C. Miller

We present the first self-consistent global simulations of pulsar magnetospheres with operating $e^\pm$ discharge. We focus on the simple configuration of an aligned or anti-aligned rotator. The star is spun up from zero (vacuum) state to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-28 Alexander Y. Chen , Andrei M. Beloborodov

With the neutron star rotating under a stationary magnetic field generating unipolar induction, charges are driven to the pulsar surface according to their signs, and are uploaded to the magnetosphere along the magnetic field lines. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 K. H. Tsui

The self-consistent two-fluid model of the pulsar magnetosphere is considered. We concentrate on the case of vanishingly small inertia of the particles. Our approach allows to obtain the realistic particle distributions sustaining the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. A. Petrova

Most studies of the pulsar magnetosphere have assumed a pure magnetic dipole in flat spacetime. However, recent work suggests that the effects of general relativity are in fact of vital importance and that realistic pulsar magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Alexander Philippov
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