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arxiv: astro-ph/0507428 · v1 · submitted 2005-07-19 · 🌌 astro-ph

The Current Flows in Pulsar Magnetospheres

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keywords pulsarcurrentflowsaxesmagnetospherespulsarsbarecalculations
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The global structure of the current flows in pulsar magnetospheres is investigated, with rough calculations of the elements in the magnetospheric circuit. It is emphasized that the potential of critical field lines is the same as that of interstellar medium, and that the pulsars whose rotation axes and magnetic dipole axes are parallel should be positively charged, in order to close the pulsar's current flows. The statistical relation between the radio luminosity and pulsar's electric charge (or the spindown power) may hint that the millisecond pulsars could be low-mass bare strange stars.

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