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General Relativistic Electrodynamics of the Magnetic Polar Regions of Neutron Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2017

A. G. Muslimov
Affiliation:
A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology
A. I. Tsygan
Affiliation:
A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology

Abstract

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The induction of the electric fields near a rotating neutron star is considered within the framework of General Relativity. It is demonstrated that within the open magnetic field region, filled by relativistically moving charged particles, a sufficiently strong component of the electric field is generated. This component is due to the effect of dragging of inertial frames of reference and predominates in the case when a neutron star is not exactly an orthogonal rotator. Finally, we discuss some implications of our results on the theory of radio pulsars.

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Type
Part VI Polar cap theories
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