Anatoly Spitkovsky developed time-dependent calculations of plasma-filled pulsar magnetospheres using the force-free limit, including cases with a tilted magnetic axis. The simulations determine field structure and rotational energy loss while allowing magnetospheric currents and current sheets.[ref]
Such calculations test the limits of applying a vacuum-dipole picture to a conducting plasma. The approximation neglects plasma inertia where electromagnetic stresses dominate; it does not assert that the plasma is physically absent.

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