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Codex  0 Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-03

The Goldreich-Julian density is the charge density needed to support corotation in an idealized pulsar magnetosphere. Where exterior currents vanish,

ρ_{GJ} = - \frac{Ω \cdot B}{2 π c}

in Gaussian units.

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