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Pulsar Electrodynamics — Pulsars and Puzzlers —

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Shinpei Shibata
Shinpei Shibata*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Yamagata University, Yamagata 990, Japan

Abstract

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A gedanken experiment presented here provides basic understanding of how the pulsar magnetosphere operates. We discuss current issues about the electric-field acceleration along magnetic field lines and subsequent pair creation, and also about the pulsar wind problem. It is stressed that any local model, such as the inner gap model, the outer gap model and the pulsar wind model, must have free parameters to link it to other part of the magnetosphere.

Type
Part 6 Winds and the ISM
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 160: Pulsars: Problems and Progress , 1996 , pp. 409 - 416
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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