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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

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

Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE) describes magnetically dominated relativistic plasma via non-linear equations for the electromagnetic field alone. Such plasma is thought to play a key role in the physics of pulsars and active black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 Samuel E. Gralla , Ted Jacobson

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

A pseudo-spectral method with an absorbing outer boundary is used to solve a set of the time-dependent force-free equations. In the method, both electric and magnetic fields are expanded in terms of the vector spherical harmonic (VSH)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Gang Cao , Li Zhang , Sineng Sun

We report on a remarkable class of exact solutions to force-free electrodynamics that has four-current along the light cones of an arbitrary timelike worldline in flat spacetime. No symmetry is assumed, and the solutions are given in terms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Daniel Brennan , Samuel E. Gralla

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

We present the structure of the 3D ideal MHD pulsar magnetosphere to a radius ten times that of the light cylinder, a distance about an order of magnitude larger than any previous such numerical treatment. Its overall structure exhibits a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Ioannis Contopoulos , Demos Kazanas

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 a novel numerical approach aiming at computing equilibria and dynamics structures of magnetized plasmas in coronal environments. A technique based on the use of neural networks that integrates the partial differential equations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 Hubert Baty , Vincent Vigon

The current state of the art in pulsar magnetosphere modeling assumes the force-free limit of magnetospheric plasma. This limit retains only partial information about plasma velocity and neglects plasma inertia and temperature. We carried…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jason G. Li

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

We present 3D global kinetic pulsar magnetosphere models, where the charged particle trajectories and the corresponding electromagnetic fields are treated self-consistently. For our study, we have developed a cartesian 3D relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Gabriele Brambilla , Andrey Timokhin , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas

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

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

Magnetospheres of many astrophysical objects can be accurately described by the low-inertia (or "force-free") limit of MHD. We present a new numerical method for solution of equations of force-free relativistic MHD based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Anatoly Spitkovsky

Global particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of pulsar magnetospheres are performed with a volume, surface and pair production-based plasma injection schemes to systematically investigate the transition between electrosphere and force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Alexander Y. Chen , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

We review the recent advances in the pulsar high-energy $\gamma$-ray observation and the electrodynamics of the pulsar magnetospheres from the early vacuum model to the recent plasma-filled models by the numerical simulations. The numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang , Li Zhang

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

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