Determination of the electromagnetic field produced by a magnetic oblique-rotator |
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| Authors: | Osamu Kaburaki |
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| Institution: | (1) Astronomical Institute, Faculty of Science, Tôhoku University, Sendai, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The electromagnetic field produced by a magnetic dipole moment,  , which is rotating obliquely surrounded by a  corotating plasma sphere, is investigated. This corotating-plasma approximation has the same order of accuracy as the force-free one but has somewhat different physical implications. In the former the effect of non-electromagnetic forces such as the inertial force are included, though in somewhat artificial manner, as a departure from the strict MHD condition and this fact seems to guarantee the existence of physical solutions.Analogous to the relativistic force-free equation, a set of two differential equations (the corotation equation) are derived for the scalar functions associated with the electric and magnetic fields. A self-consistent solution of these equations is given and it is shown that this solution has no singularity, in spite of apparent divergence in the formal solution, on the light cylinder. It is concluded from this solution that, even in the extreme case of the largest possible corotation-radius (i.e.b=r
L
, wherer
L
is the light radius), the existence of a corotating plasma does not alter the field structure drastically from the vacuum case. It is also suggested through this treatment that inclusion of the inertial term in generalized Ohm's law might be essential in considering the centrifugal-wind problem. |
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