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General Relativistic Electrodynamics of the Magnetic Polar Regions of Neutron Stars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2017
Abstract
The induction of the electric fields near a rotating neutron star is considered within the framework of General Relativity. It is demonstrated that within the open magnetic field region, filled by relativistically moving charged particles, a sufficiently strong component of the electric field is generated. This component is due to the effect of dragging of inertial frames of reference and predominates in the case when a neutron star is not exactly an orthogonal rotator. Finally, we discuss some implications of our results on the theory of radio pulsars.
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