Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics

2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-540-76955-2
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 399 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 863 g

Reihe: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers of research in this book. 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. The recoil from the struggle between electromagnetic and gravitational forces near the event horizon is manifested as a powerful pair of magnetized particle beams (jets) that are ejected at nearly the speed of light.

This second edition of the book is updated throughout and contains a completely new chapter discussing state of the art and results of numerical simulations of ergospheric disk jets occurring in magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Punsly, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.- Applications to the Theory of Extragalactic Radio Sources.- Numerical Results.