Pulsar Magnetosphere

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Apr 1972

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972ap%26ss..16..130c&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp.130-136

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17

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Pulsars are presently believed to be rotating neutron stars with large frozen-in magnetic fields normally assumed to be dipole fields. It has been shown that such a star must possess a magnetosphere if it rotates sufficiently rapidly. By assuming that the magnetic field is dipolar, and unaffected by the trapped particles in the magnetosphere, and that the field dipole axis is parallel to the rotation axis, Goldreich and Julian determined many of the properties of the magnetosphere. In this paper is given a self-consistent model of the closed field lines of a pulsar magnetosphere. Using this model, it is shown that, close to the star, the above assumptions of Goldreich and Julian are justified. Their results are extended to the oblique rotator as well as to stars with magnetic multipoles of arbitrary order and arbitrary orientation.

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