Pulsar Magnetosphere with Conspicuous Trans-Field Flow
Abstract
It is shown that (1) in the pulsar magnetosphere the violation of the ideal-MHD condition,E+v×B≠0, (i.e., conspicuous trans-field motion and non-zero field aligned electric field (E‖≠0) appears owing to relativistic large inertia, and (2) an axisymmetric numerical model with tenuous plasma suggests that in the region of the trans-field flow a vacuum-like electric field and a closed current circuit develop.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- January 1986
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1986Ap&SS.119..105S
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- Atmospheric Circulation;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Pulsar Magnetospheres;
- Pulsars;
- Electric Fields;
- Electromagnetic Fields;
- Stellar Models;
- Astrophysics;
- Numerical Model;
- Large Inertia;
- Pulsar Magnetosphere;
- Tenuous Plasma;
- Axisymmetric Numerical Model