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Electron Outflow in Pulsar Magnetospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. R. Burman*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of W.A.

Extract

Mestel, Wang and Westfold (1984; ‘MWW’) have recently introduced a pulsar magnetosphere model in which electrons leave the star with non-negligible, but not highly-relativistic, speeds, and flow with moderate acceleration along magnetic field lines before reaching a limiting surface, near which rapid acceleration occurs. Such moderately accelerated flows are analysed here. A second class of flows, which do not encounter a region of rapid acceleration, is found.

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Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1984

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