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Pulsar Electrodynamics: Production of Fast Particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

A.A. da Costa*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL

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The three-dimensional structure of a pulsar magnetosphere is hard to calculate. Instead we start with a two-dimensional model (Kahn, 1971). It consists of a vacuum electromagnetic field generated by a line of rotating dipoles, from −∞ to +∞, perpendicular to the rotation axis. This field resembles that in the equatorial plane of a rotating dipole aligned perpendicular to its rotation axis. In both cases the electric field E is perpendicular to the magnetic induction B.

Type
II. Radio Emission Mechanism
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981 

References

da Costa, A.A.: 1976, , Manchester University.Google Scholar
Kahn, F.D.: 1971 February, Lecture delivered at Royal Astronomical Society Meeting.Google Scholar