A class of exact solutions to the force-free, axisy,metric, stationary magnetosphere of a Kerr black hole

DOI10.1007/S10714-007-0418-2MaRDI QIDQ995898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles D. Dermer, Govind Menon

Publication date 10 September 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511661

zbMATH Keywords

Black hole electrodynamicsBlandford-Znajek processEnergy extraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We analyze the constraint equation giving allowed solutions describing fields and currents in a force-free magnetosphere around a rotating black hole. Utilizing the divergence properties of the energy and angular-momentum fluxes for physically allowed solutions, we conclude that poloidal surfaces are independent of the radial coordinate for large values of $r$. Using this fact and the Znajek regularity condition, we explicitly derive all possible exact solutions admitted by the constraint equation for $r$ independent poloidal surfaces, which are given in terms of the electromagnetic angular velocity function $Omega=1/asi{n}^{2}heta$, where $a$ is the angular momentum per unit mass of the black hole.

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