2000/11/15 by Peter Biltzinger, Biltzinger, Peter, Klaus Oswald Thielheim +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0011306
Title and content changed, 24 pages, 7 figures
arxiv created 2004/11/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Selfconsistent magnetospheres of rotating cosmic magnets (neutron stars/pulsars) with arbitrary inclination of the magnetic against the rotation axis are considered. Present studies concentrate on the regime dominated by the force--free surface (FFS). A macroscopic fluid description is applied and radiation reaction is taken into account. As in earlier work of our group, a 'standard set of parameters' is used. Under these conditions, the following features are found among other results: global charge separation exists for all degrees of inclination of the magnetic against the rotation axis; clouds of different charge are seperated by regions of vanishing particle number density; as expected, test particles inserted into the latter regions propagate into one of the adjacent clouds; strong polodial currents exist; locally averaged particle energies for protons typically range up to 1016-1017 eV, depending on the angle of inclination.