Abstract
THE conventional model of the magnetosphere of axisymmetric ‘pulsars’ contains a boundary between regions of negative and positive space charge. This boundary may be capable of sustaining a finite potential difference, and may allow the existence of metastable states of the magnetosphere in which there are evacuated regions, and regions which rotate more rapidly than the central object.
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HOLLOW, N. P-N Junctions in Pulsar Magnetospheres ?. Nature Physical Science 246, 6–9 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci246006a0
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