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Non neutral Plasmas in the Laboratory and Astrophysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

F. Curtis Michel
F. Curtis Michel*
Affiliation:
Space Physics and Astronomy Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Abstract

Recent laboratory experiments have confirmed theoretical expectations that the aligned rotator model (Goldreich and Julian 1969) does not function in the way originally expected, if at all. These experiments confirm that the nonneutral (completely charge-separated) plasma is isolated into finite regions, which in the case of the magnetosphere about an aligned rotator means in general that there is no plasma from the neutron star to be found at the light-cylinder. Hence the interesting pulsar-like properties originally postulated no longer follow.

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Invited Papers
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , 1985 , pp. 127 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1985

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