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Applications of Ohm’s Law to the pulsar magnetosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Thomas Kunzl
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie und AstrophysikderUniversität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679, München Max-Planck- Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Gießenbachstr., D-85748, Garching
Harald Lesch
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie und AstrophysikderUniversität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679, München
Axel Jessner
Affiliation:
Max-Planck- Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn

Abstract

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We show that in the inner magnetosphere of a pulsar mildly relativistic particles can flow out steadily under two assumptions: i) all vacuum fields are completely shielded by copious amounts of particles drawn out by thermal and field emission (which is likely as shown in Jessner et al, 1999) ii) particles emitted from the neutron star surface have weakly relativistic energies (βϒ ≈ 1). The results are consistent with the typical particle energies predicted in the radio emission model by Kunzl et al., 1999.

Type
Part 6. Emission and Plasma Theory
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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