Extrapolate an anchored magnetic dipole field to the light cylinder and estimate outward power as magnetic energy density times . The result fixes the displayed scaling but not the geometric coefficient. An aligned vacuum dipole does not radiate, while a current-carrying plasma magnetosphere can have nonzero aligned spin-down. Corotation at the light cylinder is a notional limiting construction, not a material surface moving rigidly at light speed.
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