Consistent Blandford-Znajek expansion

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/009MaRDI QIDQ5068449zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jay Armas, Yangyang Cai, Geoffrey Compère, David Garfinkle, Samuel E. Gralla

Publication date 6 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01972

zbMATH Keywords

GR black holesmagnetohydrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Motion of the gyroscope (70E05) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: The Blandford-Znajek mechanism is the continuous extraction of energy from a rotating black hole via plasma currents flowing on magnetic field lines threading the horizon. In the discovery paper, Blandford and Znajek demonstrated the mechanism by solving the equations of force-free electrodynamics in a perturbative expansion valid at small black hole spin. Attempts to extend this perturbation analysis to higher order have encountered inconsistencies.We overcome this problem using the method of matched asymptotic expansions, taking care to resolve all of the singular surfaces (light surfaces) in the problem. Working with the monopole field configuration, we show explicitly how the inconsistencies are resolved in this framework and calculate the field configuration to one order higher than previously known. However, there is no correction to the energy extraction rate at this order. These results confirm the basic consistency of the split monopole at small spin and lay a foundation for further perturbative studies of the Blandford-Znajek mechanism.

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