Force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator with differential rotation of open magnetic field lines

DOI10.1007/S10509-007-9348-4MaRDI QIDQ885571zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. N. Timokhin

Publication date 14 June 2007

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607165, http://cds.cern.ch/record/971097

zbMATH Keywords

MHDPulsars: generalStars: magnetic fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Abstract: Here we briefly report on results of self-consistent numerical modeling of a differentially rotating force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator. We show that differential rotation of the open field line zone is significant for adjusting of the global structure of the magnetosphere to the current density flowing through the polar cap cascades. We argue that for most pulsars stationary cascades in the polar cap can not support stationary force-free configurations of the magnetosphere.

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