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Modelling of surface magnetic field in neutron stars: application to radio pulsars

Janusz A. Gil, George I. Melikidze, Dipanjan Mitra

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0111474

Abstract

We propose a vacuum gap (VG) model which can be applied uniformly for normal and high magnetic field pulsars. The model requires strong and non-dipolar surface magnetic field near the pulsar polar cap. We assume that the actual surface magnetic field in pulsars results from a superposition of global dipole field and crust-anchored small scale magnetic anomaly. We provide a numerical formalism for modelling such structures of surface magnetic field and explore it within the framework of VG model, which requires strong surface fields more than 1013 G.

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