I read okalatoona's article and I am not convinced. The sun is a ball of gas... I would expect its magnetic field to be wildly erratic, although basically aligned with its spin. As for the earths magnetic field, the earth has a solid core spinning independently of its crust, and I would venture a guess that the magnetic field aligns with the "average" of the spin of the two bodies. a neutron star is a single solid body, a homogeneous nugget of neutron, and that its magnetic field is a remnant, not a dynamically produced field.
I believe its true that the field aligns with the spin
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false The pulse happens because of misalignment.
False.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answer...
this is undoubtedly true.
I read okalatoona's article and I am not convinced. The sun is a ball of gas... I would expect its magnetic field to be wildly erratic, although basically aligned with its spin. As for the earths magnetic field, the earth has a solid core spinning independently of its crust, and I would venture a guess that the magnetic field aligns with the "average" of the spin of the two bodies. a neutron star is a single solid body, a homogeneous nugget of neutron, and that its magnetic field is a remnant, not a dynamically produced field.
I believe its true that the field aligns with the spin
True.