Adjustment of the electric current in pulsar magnetospheres and origin of subpulse modulation
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- 作者：Yuri Lyubarsky (1) lyub@bgu.ac.il
- 关键词：Stars – ; Pulsars ; general
- 刊名：Astrophysics and Space Science
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：November 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：342
- 期：1
- 页码：79-85
- 全文大小：372.9 KB
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文摘
The subpulse modulation of pulsar radio emission goes to prove that the plasma flow in the open field line tube breaks into isolated narrow streams. I propose a model which attributes formation of streams to the process of the electric current adjustment in the magnetosphere. A mismatch between the magnetospheric current distribution and the current injected by the polar cap accelerator gives rise to reverse plasma flows in the magnetosphere. The reverse flow shields the longitudinal electric field in the polar gap and thus shuts up the plasma production process. I assume that a circulating system of streams is formed such that the upward streams are produced in narrow gaps separated by downward streams. The electric drift is small in this model because the potential drop in narrow gaps is small. The gaps have to drift because by the time a downward stream reaches the star surface and shields the electric field, the corresponding gap has to shift. The transverse size of the streams is determined by the condition that the potential drop in the gaps is sufficient for the pair production. This yields the radius of the stream roughly 10 % of the polar cap radius, which makes it possible to fit in the observed morphological features such as the “carousel” with 10–20 subbeams and the system of the core–two nested cone beams.