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Magnetospheres of pulsars are thought to be filled with plasma, and variations in plasma supply can affect both pulsar emission properties and spin-down rates. A number of recently discovered "intermittent" pulsars switch between two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jason Li , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

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

A multipole spin-down equation based on a monopolar term is derived from the general expression $\dot{\nu} = -f(\nu,t)$ and used to study pulsar evolution. We show that the time-independent version of such equation cannot reproduce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cesar Alvarez , Alberto Carramiñana

We propose a scheme to realize a pseudospin-$1/2$ model of the $^{1}\Sigma(v=0)$ bialkali polar molecules with the spin states corresponding to two sublevels of the first excited rotational level. We show that the effective dipole-dipole…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-30 Y. Deng , S. Yi

Almost 50 years after radio pulsars were discovered in 1967, our understanding of these objects remains incomplete. On the one hand, within a few years it became clear that neutron star rotation gives rise to the extremely stable sequence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-29 V. S. Beskin , S. V. Chernov , C. R. Gwinn , A. Tchekhovskoy

We find that in general relativity slow down of the pulsar rotation due to the magnetodipolar radiation is more faster for the strange star with comparison to that for the neutron star of the same mass. Comparison with astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. J. Ahmedov , B. B. Ahmedov , A. A. Abdujabbarov

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 review electrodynamics of rotating magnetized neutron stars, from the early vacuum model to recent numerical experiments with plasma-filled magnetospheres. Significant progress became possible due to the development of global…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Benoît Cerutti , Andrei Beloborodov

The observed long-term spin-down evolution of isolated radio pulsars cannot be explained by the standard magnetic dipole radiation with a constant braking torque. However, how and why the torque varies still remains controversial, which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-25 Yi Xie , Shuang-Nan Zhang

The inductive electric field is unjustifiably neglected in most models for pulsar electrodynamics; it cannot be screened by the magnetospheric plasma, and it is not small in comparison with the corotation electric field. The perpendicular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Donald B. Melrose , Rai Yuen

The Proca-Corben-Schwinger equations for a spin-1 particle with an anomalous magnetic moment are added by a term describing an electric dipole moment, then they are reduced to a Hamiltonian form, and finally they are brought to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-26 Alexander J. Silenko

The inclination angle $\chi$ between magnetic and rotation axes of pulsars is an important parameter in pulsar physics. The changes in the inclination angle of a pulsar would lead to observable effects, such as changes in the pulse beam…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Biao-Peng Li , Zhi-Fu Gao

Metallic split-ring resonators possess dominant electric dipoles as well as considerable magnetic dipoles under proper excitations. Full-wave numerical approaches are frequently employed to simulate adjacent split-ring resonators, but…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-24 Yong Zeng , Douglas H. Werner

I review the theoretical understanding of the global structure of pulsar magnetospheres concentrating on recent progress in force-free electrodynamics and first-principles simulations of magnetospheres.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Spitkovsky

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

Electromagnetic waves arise in many area of physics. Solutions are difficult to find in the general case. In this paper, we numerically integrate Maxwell equations in a 3D spherical polar coordinate system. Straightforward finite difference…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 J. Petri

By fitting the classical Rotating Vector Model (RVM) to high quality polarization data for selected radio pulsars, we find the inclination of the magnetic axis to the spin axis, alpha, as well as the minimum angle between the line of sight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Everett , J. M. Weisberg

We used the magneto-dipole radiation mechanism for the braking of radio pulsars to calculate the new values of magnetic inductions at the surfaces of neutron stars. For this aim we estimated the angles ? between the rotation axis and the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 E. B. Nikitina , I. F. Malov

Starting from the non-relativistic Pauli description of spin-1/2 particles, a set of fluid equations, governing the dynamics of such particles interacting with external fields and other particles, is derived. The equations describe…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brodin , M. Marklund

In this paper we investigate vacuum nonlinear electrodynamics corrections on rapidly rotating pulsar radiation and spin-down in the perturbative QED approach (post-Maxwellian approximation). An analytical expression for the pulsar's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 V. I. Denisov , I. P. Denisova , A. B. Pimenov , V. A. Sokolov