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astro-ph2003
Electrodynamics of pulsar magnetospheres
Anatoly Spitkovsky
I review the theoretical understanding of the global structure of pulsar magnetospheres concentrating on recent progress in force-free electrodynamics and first-principles simulati…
astro-ph2002
Simulations of pulsar wind formation
Anatoly Spitkovsky, Jonathan Arons
We present initial results of the first self-consistent numerical model of the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar. By using the relativistic ``particle-in-cell'' method with special b…