... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... To explain the torque reversal with similar magnitude of spin-up and spin-down torques, we assumed that the magnetosphere can abruptly change its extent which determines the total magnetic torque. ... This basic disc-star interaction argues for the existence of the so-called Disc-induced Magnetospheric instability which leads to alteration between two magnetospheric states...