Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0607256

From: Ioannis Contopoulos [view email]

Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:30:28 GMT (4kb)

Electromagnetic Pulsar Spindown

Authors: Ioannis Contopoulos

Comments: 5 pages, no figures

We evaluate the result of the recent pioneering numerical simulations in Spitkovsky~2006 on the spindown of an oblique relativistic magnetic dipole rotator. Our discussion is based on our experience from two idealized cases, that of an aligned dipole rotator, and that of an oblique split-monopole rotator. We conclude that the issue of electromagnetic pulsar spindown may not have been resolved yet.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607256