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Description
Recent progress in understanding the physics of radio pulsars
Radio pulsars, discovered 57 years ago, remain one of the profound puzzles of
the modern astrophysics, as we still lack self-consistent quantitative models of
emission processes in pulsar magnetospheres. However, the advent of powerful
computers and significant improvements in numerical techniques for modeling
relativistic plasma resulted in the creation of reliable numerical models of pulsar
magnetospheres, what gave us hope to solve the problem of pulsar emission
mechanism(s) in the foreseeable future. In this talk, I will review our current
understanding of the physics of pulsar magnetospheres, highlight the most recent
results of modeling physical processes in pulsar magnetospheres, and describe a few
ways towards the solution of the pulsar emission mechanism(s) problem.
