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We perform force-free simulations for a neutron star orbiting a black hole, aiming at clarifying the main magnetosphere properties of such binaries towards their innermost stable circular orbits. Several configurations are explored, varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Federico Carrasco , Masaru Shibata , Oscar Reula

We report long-term simulations of black hole-neutron star binary mergers where the neutron star possesses an asymmetric magnetic field dipole. Focusing on the scenario where the neutron star is tidally disrupted by the black hole, we track…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 Mew-Bing Wan

It is expected on both evolutionary and empirical grounds that many merging neutron star (NS) binaries are composed of a highly magnetized NS in orbit with a relatively low magnetic field NS. I study the magnetic interactions of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Anthony L. Piro

We consider electromagnetic interaction and precursor emission of merging neutron stars. Orbital motion of the magnetized neutron stars may revive pair production within the common magnetosphere years before the merger, igniting pulsar-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-06 Maxim Lyutikov

Based on the exact dipolar solution of the pulsar equation the self-consistent two-fluid model of the pulsar magnetosphere is developed. We concentrate on the low-mass limit of the model, taking into account the radiation damping. As a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 S. A. Petrova

We present the magnetic and electric field structures as well as the currents and charge densities of pulsar magnetospheres which do not obey the ideal condition, ${\bf E \cdot B =0}$. Since the acceleration of particles and the production…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Alice Harding , Ioannis Contopoulos

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects may be included in physical processes of magnetar and pulsar magnetospheres with strong magnetic fields. Involving the quantum corrections, the Maxwell electrodynamics is modified to non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Huiquan Li , Xiaolin Yang , Jiancheng Wang

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

A good compromise between the resistive model and the PIC model is Aristotelian electrodynamics, which can include the back-reaction of the radiative photons onto particle motion and allow for a local dissipation where the force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-28 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

We consider a model of axisymmetric neutron star magnetosphere. In our approach, the current density in the region of open field lines is constant and the returning current flows in a narrow layer along the separatrix. In this case, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. S. Beskin , L. M. Malyshkin

We investigate energy release in the interacting magnetospheres of binary neutron stars (BNSs) with global 3D force-free electrodynamics simulations. The system dynamics depend on the inclinations $\chi_1$ and $\chi_2$ of the stars'…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-03 Jens F. Mahlmann , Andrei M. Beloborodov

An oblique pulsar magnetosphere with a plasma conductivity is studied by using a pseudo-spectral method. In the pseudo-spectral method, the time-dependent Maxwell equations are solved, both electric and magnetic fields are expanded in terms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Gang Cao , Li Zhang , Sineng Sun

Following the basic principles of a charge separated pulsar magnetosphere \citep{goldreich1969}, we consider the magnetosphere be stationary in space, instead of corotating, and the electric field be uploaded from the potential distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-01 K. H. Tsui

We consider the force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator. Its structure is well described by a Grad-Shafranov equation for poloidal magnetic field, the so-called "pulsar equation". We solve this equation by a multigrid method with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrey Timokhin

We discuss axisymmetric force-free pulsar magnetospheres with magnetically collimated jets and a disk-wind obtained by numerical solution of the pulsar equation. This solution represents an alternative to the quasi-spherical wind solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard V. E. Lovelace , Leaf Turner , Marina M. Romanova

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 explore the role of complex multipolar magnetic fields in determining physical processes near the surface of rotation powered pulsars. We model the actual magnetic field as the sum of global dipolar and star-centered multipolar fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Estelle Asseo , David Khechinashvili

We show that toroidal magnetic field annihilation in the equatorial current sheet of the pulsar magnetosphere is related to how fast poloidal magnetic field lines close as we move away from the light cylinder. This determines the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ioannis Contopoulos

We study the dependence of the surface magnetic fields of radio pulsars on the choice of Equations of State, pulsar masses and the values of the angle between the magnetic axis and the spin axis of the pulsars within simple dipole model. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-26 Manjari Bagchi

The rotational period of isolated pulsars increases over time due to the extraction of angular momentum by electromagnetic torques. These torques also change the obliquity angle $\alpha$ between the magnetic and rotational axes. Although…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexander Philippov , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jason G. Li