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Title: Electromagnetic tornado in the vacuum gap of a pulsar

Journal Article · · Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
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  1. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Radio Astronomy (Ukraine)

The solution for an electromagnetic tornado that describes the motion in the discharge filament of breakdown in the vacuum gap of a pulsar has been obtained. This solution can serve as an explanation of the observed circular polarization of giant radiation pulses from pulsars.

OSTI ID:
21443506
Journal Information:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Vol. 110, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1134/S1063776110060051; Copyright (c) 2010 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; ISSN 1063-7761
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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