Local, non-geodesic, timelike currents in the force-free magnetosphere of a Kerr black hole

DOI10.1007/S10714-015-1896-2MaRDI QIDQ2353382zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Govind Menon, Charles D. Dermer

Publication date 9 July 2015

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3514

zbMATH Keywords

black hole electrodynamicsforce-free magnetosphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: In this paper, we use previously developed exact solutions to present some of the curious features of a force-free magnetosphere in a Kerr background. More precisely, we obtain a hitherto unseen timelike current in the force-free magnetosphere that does not flow along a geodesic. The electromagnetic field in this case happens to be magnetically dominated. This too is a feature that has entered the literature for the first time. Changing the sign of a single parameter in our solutions generates a spacelike current that creates an electromagnetic field that is electrically dominated.

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