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Maximum cut-off energy of the charged particle energy distributions, ℰmax (electrons: blue dots; positrons: red dots; protons: green dots), as a function of the surface magnetic field B⋆. The evolution of the polar-cap potential drop is shown by the dashed line for comparison (Eq. 4).
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