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On the magnetosphere of an accelerated pulsar

T. Daniel Brennan and Samuel E. Gralla

  • Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics & Joint Space-Science Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 103013 – Published 27 May, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.103013

Abstract

We report on a remarkable class of exact solutions to force-free electrodynamics that has four-current along the light cones of an arbitrary timelike worldline in flat spacetime. No symmetry is assumed, and the solutions are given in terms of a free function of three variables. The field configuration should describe the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar moving on the worldline. The power radiated is the sum of an acceleration (Larmor-type) term and a pulsar-type term.

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 103013– Published 27 May, 2014
  • Received 4 November 2013

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