Black hole gravitohydromagnetics

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    • Punsly, Brian

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Black hole gravitohydromagnetics

Brian Punsly

(Astronomy and astrophysics library)

Springer, c2001

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-391) and index

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Description

A new branch of physics, black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers of research. GHM describes plasma interactions that combine the effects of gravity and a strong magnetic field, in the vicinity (ergosphere) of a rapidly rotating black hole. This topic was created in response to the astrophysical quest to understand the central engines of radio loud extragalactic radio sources. The theory describes a "torsional tug of war" between rotating ergospheric plasma and the distant asymptotic plasma that extracts the rotational inertia of the black hole.

Table of Contents

From the Contents: Introduction.- Relativistic Plasma Physics.- Particle Trajectories in the Ergosphere.- Vacuum Electrodynamics.- Magnetically Dominated Time Stationary Perfect MHD Winds.- Perfect MHD Winds and Waves in the Ergosphere.- Ergosphere Driven Winds.- Ergospheric Disk Dynamos.- Winds from Event Horizon Magnetospheres.- NP Black Holes.

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