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A model is developed with the aim of analyzing interacting superparamagnets. Model is built from magnetic dipolar interaction and demagnetizing mean field concepts. A useful expression for effective demagnetizing factors is achieved, which…

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We present the first 3D fully coupled magneto-thermal simulations of neutron stars (including the most realistic background structure and microphysical ingredients so far) applied to a very complex initial magnetic field topology in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Clara Dehman , Daniele Viganò , Stefano Ascenzi , Jose A. Pons , Nanda Rea

We propose a simple analytic model for the innermost (within the light cylinder of canonical radius) structure of open-magnetic-field lines of a rotating neutron star (NS) with relativistic outflow of charged particles (electrons/positrons)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alex G. Muslimov , Alice K. Harding

We present an extensive analysis of the 850 microns polarization maps of the SCUPOL Catalog produced by Matthews et al. (2009), focusing exclusively on the molecular clouds and star-forming regions. For the sufficiently sampled regions, we…

Optical metasurfaces have great potential to form the platform for manipulation of surface waves. A plethora of advanced surface-wave phenomena utilizing negative refraction, self-collimation and channeling of 2D waves can be realized…

Modeling of the NICER X-ray light curves of millisecond pulsars PSR J0030+0451 provides a strong evidence for the existence of non-dipole magnetic fields. We study the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission of PSR J0030+0451 in the dissipative…

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We present high signal-to-noise ratio, multi-frequency polarization pulse profiles for 24 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The pulsars are observed in three bands, centred…

We performed ab-initio Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations of a pulsar magnetosphere with electron-positron plasma produced only in the regions close to the neutron star surface. We study how the magnetosphere transitions from the vacuum to…

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Disk accretion to rotating stars with complex magnetic fields is investigated using full three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The studied magnetic configurations include superpositions of misaligned dipole and quadrupole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Long , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

In this paper, we compute a full atlas of radio, X-ray and $\gamma$-ray pulse profiles relying on the force-free magnetosphere model. Our goal is to use such data bank of multi-wavelength profiles to fit a substantial number of radio-loud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-17 Jérôme Pétri

We present a new method for Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics numerical simulations of three dimensional polar fluids. The simulation cell is defined to be the surface of the northern hemisphere of a four-dimensional (hyper)sphere. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-29 Jean-Michel Caillol , Martin Trulsson

Multiphase magnetic systems are common in nature and are increasingly being recognized in technical applications. One characterization method which has shown great promise for determining separate and collective effects of multiphase…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-14 Yue Cao , Mostafa Ahmadzadeh , Ke Xu , Brad Dodrill , John S. McCloy

A more realistic description of the magnetosphere is crucial for understanding the radiation emitted by pulsars. In this paper, we revisit the annular gap model by employing a rotating dipole field, which is more realistic than the static…

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We consider the voltage structure in the open-field circuit and outer magnetosphere of a magnetar. The standard polar-cap model for radio pulsars is modified significantly when the polar magnetic field exceeds 1.8x10^{14} G. Pairs are…

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A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission mechanisms in the pulsar magnetospheres. We solve distribution of the accelerating electric field with the emission process and the…

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Magnetic materials are typically described in terms of the Heisenberg model, which provides an accurate account of thermodynamic properties when combined with first principles calculations. This approach is usually based on an energy…

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We perform global particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres including pair production, ion extraction from the surface, frame dragging corrections, and high energy photon emission and propagation. In the case of oblique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Alexander A. Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Surface currents provide a general way to model static magnetic fields in source-free volumes. To facilitate the use of surface currents in magneto-quasistatic problems, we have implemented a set of computational tools in a Python package…

Pulsars emit beams of radiation that reveal the extreme physics of neutron star magnetospheres. Yet, their understanding remains incomplete. Recent global Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations have raised several questions that led us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Ioannis Contopoulos , Jerome Petri , Ioannis Dimitropoulos

Artificial magnetic conductors (AMCs) mimic the idealized boundary condition of a perfect magnetic conductor (PMC), which reflects electromagnetic waves with a preserved electric field and inverted magnetic field. Despite their usefulness,…

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