Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-29
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 348 (2004) 1388
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS in press
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07476.x
We investigate the electromagnetic fields in the vacuum exterior of a rotating relativistic star endowed with a magnetic dipole moment, and with the stellar surface behaving as a perfect conductor. While the stellar rotation is treated in the slow-approximation of general relativity, we do not restrict our attention to slowly rotating electromagnetic fields, and take our analysis beyond the low-frequency approximation considered so far. When the dipole moment is misaligned with the rotational axis, our approach does not yield analytic solutions as in Rezzolla et al. (2001a, b), but determines the properties of the electromagnetic fields approximately and semi-analytically, by computing the coefficients of simple expressions for the fields through the numerical solution of two partial differential equations. Because our approach provides a solution which is in principle valid throughout space, we can evaluate the accuracy and/or invalidity of previously known analytic expressions at different distances from the stellar surface. Overall, the solutions found in this way represent an efficient way of bridging in a single semi-analytic formalism the strongly relativistic (Rezzolla et al. 2001a, b) and the asymptotic regimes (Deutsch 1955) for which analytic solutions have been found.
Kojima Yasufumi
Matsunaga Norihito
Okita Taishi
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