Jets and Disk-Winds from Pulsar Magnetospheres

Lovelace, Richard V. E.; Turner, Leaf; Romanova, Marina M.

Jets and Disk-Winds from Pulsar Magnetospheres

Authors

Lovelace, Richard V. E.

Turner, Leaf

Romanova, Marina M.

Description

We discuss axisymmetric force-free pulsar magnetospheres with magnetically collimated jets and a disk-wind obtained by numerical solution of the pulsar equation. This solution represents an alternative to the quasi-spherical wind solutions where a major part of the current flow is in a current sheet which is unstable to magnetic field annihilation.
6 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ