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Spacetime approach to force-free magnetospheres

by Ted Jacobson (U. Maryland)

Europe/Zurich
4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

4/2-011 - TH common room

CERN

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Description
This talk will review how force-free magnetospheres of neutron stars and black holes convert rotational to electromagnetic energy, and will show how the theory becomes remarkably simple and elegant when treated relativistically with the help of differential forms.