The quiet aligned rotator

We conclude the magnetospheric structure around an aligned rotating magnetized neutron star, in the case of a completely charge-separated plasma, consists fo a dome of charge about the polar caps and an equatorial disk of opposite charge which, together, entirely envelope the surface but do not fill the magnetosphere. Although the aligned rotator is a 'standard model' for analyzing pulsar emission, the magnetosphere we obtain need not emit particles and need not generate a stellar wind, contrary to previous expectations. Pair production only seems to modify the detailed shape of the dome and disk, such modification serving to shut off further pair production. Such a magnetohydrodynamically inactive object may have difficulty simulating pulsar emission. (orig.)