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We study the global bending modes of a thin annular disc subject to both an internally generated magnetic field and a magnetic field due to a dipole embedded in the central star with axis aligned with the disc rotation axis. When there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasso Agapitou , John C. B. Papaloizou , Caroline Terquem

Current models of magnetars require extremely strong magnetic fields to explain their observed quiescent and bursting emission, implying that the field strength within the star's outer crust is orders of magnitude larger than the dipole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Toby Wood , Rainer Hollerbach

The propagation of emissions in the relativistic streaming pair plasmas of pulsars and magnetars is studied within the framework of Gordon effective metric theory, and the effect of vacuum polarization on the radiation spectra is examined…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 Yuee Luo , Zhigang Bu , Wenbo Chen , Hehe Li , Peiyong Ji

For a twisted (vortex) Dirac particle in nonuniform electric and magnetic fields, the relativistic Foldy-Wouthuysen Hamiltonian is derived including high order terms describing new effects. The result obtained shows for the first time that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Alexander J. Silenko , Pengming Zhang , Liping Zou

Off-centred dipole configurations have been suggested to explain different phenomena in neutron stars, such as natal kicks, irregularities in polarisation of radio pulsars and properties of X-ray emission from millisecond pulsars. Here for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Andrei P. Igoshev , Rainer Hollerbach , Toby Wood

Pulsar braking torques due to magnetodipole radiation and to unipolar generator are considered, which results in braking index being less than 3 and could be employed to test the emission models. Improved equations to obtain pulsar braking…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. X. Xu , G. J. Qiao

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

The paper investigates the ellipsometric method of measuring the magneto-optical parameter and optical constants in one experiment at affixed angle of the light incidence in ferromagnetics. The influence of the magnetization modulation on…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-17 Otar Bakradze* , Zurab Alimbarashvili , Rusiko Janelidze

The orientation of the tilted magnetic anisotropy has crucial importance in many spintronic devices. However, it is very challenging to determine it especially in very small structures produced by lithography. Here, we propose a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Hasan Piskin , Erdem Demirci , Mustafa Ozturk , Numan Akdogan

A theoretical description of vortex electrons interacting with electric and magnetic fields is presented, based on Lorentz transformations. The general dynamical equations of motion of a twisted electron with intrinsic orbital angular…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 Alexander J. Silenko , Pengming Zhang , Liping Zou

We study numerically the so-called ``turn-over scenario'' for rotating magnetic white dwarfs and neutron stars. According to this scenario, the magnetic symmetry axis of the model inclines at a gradually increasing angle (the so-called…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Geroyannis

Different analyses of identical Hinode SOT/SP data of quiet-sun magnetic fields have in the past led to contradictory answers to the question of whether the angular distribution of field vectors is preferentially horizontal or vertical.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jan Stenflo

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

In a cycle of papers, starting with the present one, a fundamental possibility of the polarization sounding of a pulsar magnetosphere using pulsar self-radiation as a test signal will be considered. The main idea of such a sounding is based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-25 O. M. Ulyanov , A. I. Shevtsova , A. O. Skoryk

We study the evolution of magnetic shear angle in a flare productive active region NOAA 10930. The magnetic shear angle is defined as the deviation in the orientation of the observed magnetic field vector with respect to the potential field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sanjay Gosain , P. Venkatakrishnan

We study the effect of the magnetic field geometry on the oscillation spectra of strongly magnetized stars. The magnetic field distributions include both toroidal and poloidal contributions. We observe that the toroidal contribution does…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 H. Sotani , A. Colaiuda , K. D. Kokkotas

The knowledge of the structure of the magnetic field inside a blazar jet, as deduced from polarization observations at radio to optical wavelengths, is closely related to the formation and propagation of relativistic jets that result from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-24 Manasvita Joshi , Alan P. Marscher , Markus Boettcher

The shape and polarisation properties of the radio pulse profiles of radio-loud magnetars provide a unique opportunity to investigate their magnetospheric properties. Gaussian Process Regression analysis was used to investigate the…

Aims. Many recent observations of pulsars and magnetars can be interpreted in terms of neutron stars (NS) with multipole electromagnetic fields. As a first approximation, we investigate the multipole magnetic and electric fields in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 S. Bonazzola , F. Mottez , J. Heyvaerts

It is common practice to take for granted the equality (up to the constant $\varepsilon_0$) of the electric displacement ($\bf{D}$) and electric ($\bf{E}$) field vectors in vacuum. The same happens with the magnetic field ($\bf{H}$) and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-14 Sébastien Fumeron , Fernando Moraes , Bertrand Berche