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

DOI10.1007/S10714-007-0418-2zbMATH Open1157.83314arXivastro-ph/0511661OpenAlexW1975659952MaRDI QIDQ995898FDOQ995898

Authors: Charles D. Dermer, Govind Menon 

Publication date: 10 September 2007

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

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.

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

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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)

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