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In this study, we introduce a novel approach for deriving the solution of the ideal force-free steady-state pulsar magnetosphere in three dimensions. Our method involves partitioning the magnetosphere into the regions of closed and open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Ioannis Dimitropoulos , Ioannis Contopoulos , Vassilis Mpisketzis , Evangelos Chaniadakis

The pulsar magnetosphere is divided into a corotating region of closed field lines surrounded by open field lines that emanate from the two poles of the star, extend to infinity and are separated by an equatorial current sheet. The three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 I. Contopoulos , D. Ntotsikas , K. N. Gourgouliatos

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

We investigate the three-dimensional structure of the pulsar magnetosphere through time-dependent numerical simulations of a magnetic dipole that is set in rotation. We developed our own Eulerian finite difference time domain numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Ioannis Contopoulos

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 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 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

We investigate the axisymmetric magnetosphere of an aligned rotating magnetic dipole surrounded by an ideal force-free plasma. We concentrate on the magnetic field structure around the point of intersection of the separatrix between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dmitri A. Uzdensky

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

We present, for the first time, the structure of the axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotating magnetic dipole, in the case in which there exists a sufficiently large charge density (whose origin we do not question) to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Christian Fendt

In view of recent efforts to probe the physical conditions in the pulsar current sheet, we revisit the standard solution that describes the main elements of the ideal force-free pulsar magnetosphere. The simple physical requirement that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Ioannis Contopoulos , Konstantinos Kalapotharakos , Demosthenes Kazanas

We present the first new type of solution of the pulsar equation since 1999. In it, the whole magnetosphere is confined inside the light cylinder and an electrically charged layer wraps around it and holds it together. The reason this new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-15 Ioannis Contopoulos , Ioannis Dimitropoulos , Dimitris Ntotsikas , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

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 apply a computationally efficient technique to validate the global structure of the pulsar magnetosphere. In this first of a series of studies, a 3D, computationally intensive, implicit Crank-Nicolson finite-difference scheme is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-23 Sushilkumar Sreekumar , Eric M. Schlegel

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

In this study, Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are skilfully applied to explore a diverse range of pulsar magneto-spheric models, specifically focusing on axisymmetric cases. The study successfully reproduced various axisymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 Petros Stefanou , Jorge F. Urbán , José A. Pons

We present initial results of the first self-consistent numerical model of the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar. By using the relativistic ``particle-in-cell'' method with special boundary conditions to represent plasma dynamics in 3D, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jonathan Arons

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

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

(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
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