Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (Q959902)
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Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (English)
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15 December 2008
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For the first edition of this book which appeared in 2001 see Zbl 0983.83001. This present second edition differs mainly in chapter 11 ``Numerical results'', which is completely new, due to the tremendous progress in the development of numerical simulations of ergospheric disk jets occuring in magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows since then. Here is the publisher's description: ``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.''
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black hole gravitomagnetics
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relativistic astrophysics
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black holes
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neutron stars
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Kerr's metric
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Bekenstein-Hawking's theory
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plasma astrophysics
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strong gravitational fields
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