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A DC-Circuit Model of the Pulsar Magnetosphere
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2017
Abstract
The structure of the pulsar magnetosphere is studied in terms of a DC-circuit analogy. We find (1) the pulsar's death results from the ‘disappearance’ of operating points of this DC-circuit, (2) the outer gap is necessary, (3) the kinetic energy flux of the pair plasma wind and the electromagnetic flux are comparable, and (4) for rapid pulsars only two types of structure (a wind dominated one and an outer-gap dominated one) are possible.
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- Part III Magnetospheric models
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1 The effect of the inclination χ of the magnetic moment can be taken in θi; for large χ, θ becomes small.
2 f denotes the fraction of V 1 to the total field aligned voltage gap, i.e., V 1 = fV ∥, fV 2∥ = (1 - f)V ∥. σ2⊥ so defined that the angular momentum loss from the outer gap is IV2σ2⊥/Ω0