Non neutral plasmas in the laboratory and astrophysics
Abstract
Recent laboratory experiments have confirmed theoretical expectations that the aligned rotator model of Goldreich and Julian (1969) does not function in the way originally expected, it at all. These experiments confirm that the nonneutral (completely charge-separated) plasma is isolated in 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.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1323358000017914
- Bibcode:
- 1985PASA....6..127M
- Keywords:
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- Cosmic Plasma;
- Plasma Physics;
- Polarization (Charge Separation);
- Pulsars;
- Electron Plasma;
- Plasma Density;
- Rotating Plasmas;
- Stellar Models;
- Astrophysics