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Energy Loss of Radio Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

V.S. Beskin
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii prosp. 53, Moscow, 117924, Russia
R.R. Rafikov
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Abstract

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Two-fluid effects on the radial 2D outflow of relativistic electron–positron plasma are considered. It is shown that when the longitudinal electric current is smaller than the Goldreich–Julian one, almost all electromagnetic energy is transformed into the energy of particles in the narrow boundary layer near the light surface |E| = |B|.

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

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