On the reconstruction of a magnetosphere of pulsars nearby the light cylinder surface

Abstract

A mechanism of generation of a toroidal component of large scale magnetic field, leading to the reconstruction of the pulsar magnetospheres is presented. In order to understand twisting of magnetic field lines, we investigate kinematics of a plasma stream rotating in the pulsar magnetosphere. Studying an exact set of equations describing the behavior of relativistic plasma flows, the increment of the curvature drift instability is derived, and estimated for $1s$ pulsars. It is shown that a new parametric mechanism is very efficient and can explain rotation energy pumping in the pulsar magnetospheres.