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Electromagnetic tornado in the vacuum gap of a pulsar

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The solution for an electromagnetic tornado that describes the motion in the discharge filament of breakdown in the vacuum gap of a pulsar has been obtained. This solution can serve as an explanation of the observed circular polarization of giant radiation pulses from pulsars.

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  2. Karazin Kharkov National University, pl. Svobody 4, Kharkov, 61077, Ukraine

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Kontorovich, 2010, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2010, Vol. 137, No. 6, pp. 1107–1114.

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Kontorovich, V.M. Electromagnetic tornado in the vacuum gap of a pulsar. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 110, 966–972 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776110060051

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