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A pulsar's electric field is investigated for the cases of coaxial and skewed rotators. A mutually consistent solution is found for the electric field in the neutron star, in its magnetosphere (the region of closed magnetic field lines), and in the radiation channel (a channel of open magnetic field lines). In the theory of pulsar radio emission, only the longitudinal component of the electric field strength in the radiation channel,\(E_B = - (\overline {\Omega B} _s )R^5 /cr^4 \), is important, where R is the radius of the star, Bs is the magnetic inductionin it, Ω is its angular rotation rate, and r is distance from its center.
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Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 97–110, January–February, 1994.
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Sahakian, G.S. Electric field in a pulsar's radiation channel. Astrophysics 37, 60–68 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02113996
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02113996