Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988a%26a...202..163l&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 202, no. 1-2, Aug. 1988, p. 163-165.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
2
Charged Particles, Electromagnetic Fields, Magnetic Dipoles, Neutron Stars, Particle Acceleration, Refractivity, Sawtooth Waveforms, Sine Waves
Scientific paper
The acceleration boundary describes an outer radial distance from a rotating magnetic dipole that limits the region from where charged particles can be accelerated to high energies. Thus this boundary defines the region around a pulsar from where particles like protons and electrons can be accelerated to become part of the primary cosmic radiation. Earlier calculations of the boundary were based on the assumption of a vacuum field. It is shown here that the refractive index deviating from unity leads to a modification in the extension of the acceleration boundary. In addition the influence of the shape of the electromagnetic wave on the boundary is studied. Thus an analytical expression for the boundary is found for sawtooth shaped waves in the vacuum field case and a numerical investigation is done for the refractive index deviating from unity.
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