Acceleration Potential and Density Profile of Secondary Plasma in the Magnetosphere of Orthogonal Pulsars

Abstract

A new method for determining the accelerating potential above the polar caps of radio pulsars with an arbitrary inclination angle of the magnetic axis to the rotation axis has been proposed. The approach has been based on the concept of a vacuum gap, the height and shape of the upper boundary of which are found self-consistently together with the solution of the corresponding Poisson equation. In turn, information about the accelerating potential has made it possible to determine the transverse profiles of the secondary plasma density. It has also been shown that the effect of inverse Compton scattering on the considered processes is insignificant.

arXiv comment12 pages, 10 figures, published in Astronomy Reports. This is the authors translation of the original paper, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal

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