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A fully geometrical treatment of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) is developed under the hypotheses of perfect conductivity, stationarity and axisymmetry. The spacetime is not assumed to be circular, which allows for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Eric Gourgoulhon , Charalampos Markakis , Koji Uryu , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

(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

By using variational calculus and exterior derivative formalism, we proposed in two previous joint papers with S. Siparov a new geometric approach for electromagnetism in pseudo-Finsler spaces. In the present paper, we provide more details,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Nicoleta Voicu

Considering the nonlinear electromagnetic field coupled to Einstein gravity in the presence of cosmological constant, we obtain a new class of $d$-dimensional magnetic brane solutions. This class of solutions yields a spacetime with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Seyed Hossein Hendi

General relativity describes the dynamics of gravitational waves, which can feature nonlinear interactions, such as those underlying turbulent processes. Theoretical and numerical explorations have demonstrated the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Holly Krynicki , Jiaxi Wu , Elias R. Most

Tensor-scalar theories of gravitation are commonly employed as extensions of General Relativity that allow to describe a much wider phenomenology. They are also naturally generated as low energy limit of higher-dimensional or unified…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 F. Minotti , G. Modanese

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

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

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

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

We study generalized Misner-Sharp energy in $f(R)$ gravity in a spherically symmetric spacetime. We find that unlike the cases of Einstein gravity and Gauss-Bonnet gravity, the existence of the generalized Misner-Sharp energy depends on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-29 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Ming Cao , Ya-Peng Hu , Nobuyoshi Ohta

Magnetars exhibit a variety of transient high-energy phenomena in the form of bursts, outbursts, and giant flares. It is a common belief that these events originate in the sudden release of magnetic energy due to the rearrangement of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-22 Petros Stefanou , Jose A. Pons , Pablo Cerdá-Durán

The crucial but undocumented Dolan-McCrea variational method is richly applied. Using the said method, we analytically derived a field equation comprising entirely of geometric structures and we investigate how effectively it describes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-20 Christian Nwachioma , Farida Tahir

The assumption that matter charges and currents could generate fields, which are called, by analogy with electromagnetism, gravitoeletric and gravitomagnetic fields, dates from the origins of General Relativity (GR). On the other hand, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-07 E. P. Spaniol , V. C. de Andrade

In the year 2003 a paper by G. Lapenta demonstrated that there is a new class of soliton-like solutions for the Grad-Shafranov Equations (GSE).The author determined an appropriate pair of transformations of the free fields p (fluid field of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-07-11 Michele Romeo

We study magnetospheric structure surrounding rotating magnetized neutron star with nonvanishing NUT (Newman-Tamburino-Unti) parameter. For the simplicity of calculations Goldreich-Julian charge density is analyzed for the aligned neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. S. Morozova , B. J. Ahmedov , V. G. Kagramanova

We work out the most general theory for the interaction of spacetime geometry and matter fields -- commonly referred to as geometrodynamics -- for spin-$0$ and spin-$1$ particles. The minimum set of postulates to be introduced is that (i)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-06 Jürgen Struckmeier , David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch

Utilizing various gauges of the radial coordinate we give a description of static spherically symmetric space-times with point singularity at the center and vacuum outside the singularity. We show that in general relativity (GR) there exist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Plamen Fiziev

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

Charged axially symmetric solution of the coupled gravitational and electromagnetic fields in the tetrad theory of gravitation is derived. The metric associated with this solution is an axially symmetric metric which is characterized by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 Gamal G. L. Nashed