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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

The stationary axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere of a pulsar is considered. We present an exact dipolar solution of the pulsar equation, construct the magnetospheric model on its basis and examine its observational support. The new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-30 S. A. Petrova

We present an elastic simulator for domains defined as evolving implicit functions, which is efficient, robust, and differentiable with respect to both shape and material. This simulator is motivated by applications in 3D reconstruction: it…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Gilles Daviet , Tianchang Shen , Nicholas Sharp , David I. W. Levin

The planet Mercury possesses a small but highly dynamic magnetosphere in which the role and dynamics of electrons are still largely unknown. We aim at modeling the global dynamics of solar wind electrons impinging on Mercury's…

We present a set of global, self-consistent N-body/SPH simulations of the dynamic evolution of galactic discs with gas and including magnetic fields. We have implemented a description to follow the evolution of magnetic fields with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Kotarba , H. Lesch , K. Dolag , T. Naab , P. H. Johansson , F. A. Stasyszyn

Implicit and explicit raytracing-photoionisation algorithms have been implemented in the author's radiation-magnetohydrodynamics code. The algorithms are described briefly and their efficiency and parallel scaling are investigated. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-31 Jonathan Mackey

We present a new implicit asymptotic preserving time integration scheme for charged-particle orbit computation in arbitrary electromagnetic fields. The scheme is built on the Crank-Nicolson integrator and continues to recover full-orbit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Lee F. Ricketson , Luis Chacón

We study the cosmic evolution of the magnetic fields of a large sample of spiral galaxies in a cosmologically representative volume by employing a semi-analytic galaxy formation model and numerical dynamo solver in tandem. We start by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-03 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Luke Chamandy , Anvar Shukurov , Carlton M. Baugh , A. Russ Taylor

In the framework of the magnetar model for the Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars, we consider the structure of neutron star magnetospheres threaded by large-scale electrical currents. We construct self-similar, force-free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lyutikov , C. Thompson , S. R. Kulkarni

We have explored the magnetosphere described by a numerical solution for an axisymmetric rotating field satisfying the force-free and ideal MHD conditions everywhere. The electric current distribution is determined by the requirement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun Ogura , Yasufumi Kojima

We perform global particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres including pair production, ion extraction from the surface, frame dragging corrections, and high energy photon emission and propagation. In the case of oblique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Alexander A. Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Here we briefly report on results of self-consistent numerical modeling of a differentially rotating force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator. We show that differential rotation of the open field line zone is significant for adjusting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrey N. Timokhin

We present first-principles relativistic particle-in-cell simulations of the oblique pulsar magnetosphere with pair formation. The magnetosphere starts to form with particles extracted from the surface of the neutron star. These particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Alexander A. Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Benoit Cerutti

The X-ray spectra observed in the persistent emission of magnetars are evidence for the existence of a magnetosphere. The high-energy part of the spectra is explained by resonant cyclotron upscattering of soft thermal photons in a twisted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-28 Daniele Viganò , Jose A. Pons , Juan A. Miralles

Ion-scale magnetospheres have been observed around comets, weakly-magnetized asteroids, and localized regions on the Moon, and provide a unique environment to study kinetic-scale plasma physics, in particular in the collisionless regime. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Filipe D. Cruz , Derek B. Schaeffer , Fábio Cruz , Luis O. Silva

This paper presents the state of the art of kinetic modeling techniques for simulating plasma kinetic dynamics in magnetospheres. We describe the critical numerical techniques for enabling large-scale kinetic simulations of magnetospheres:…

We develop kinetic plasma models of pulsar magnetospheres with magnetic-field-line-dependent plasma injection that reveal the importance of various magnetosphere regions in regulating the gamma-ray emission. We set different particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas

Abstract: Assuming that the numerical diffusivity triggered by violations of the force-free electrodynamics constraints is a proxy for the physical resistivity, we examine its impact on the overall dynamics of force-free aligned pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 J. F. Mahlmann , M. A. Aloy

The observed long-term spin-down evolution of isolated radio pulsars cannot be explained by the standard magnetic dipole radiation with a constant braking torque. However how and why the torque varies still remains controversial, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yi Xie , Shuang-Nan Zhang

The current state of the art in the modeling of pulsar magnetospheres invokes either the vacuum or force-free limits for the magnetospheric plasma. Neither of these limits can simultaneously account for both the plasma currents and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Jason Li , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Alexander Tchekhovskoy