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The Physics of Rotating Magnetic Neutron Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

P. Goldreich*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney

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Gold has suggested that pulsars are rotating neutron stars with strong magnetic fields. We have studied the simplest such model, one having an external dipole field aligned with the rotation axis.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1969

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References

1 Gold, T., Nature, 218, 731 (1968).Google Scholar
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