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A Class of Exact Solution to the Blandford-Znajek Process

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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 rr. Using this fact and the Znajek regularity condition, we explicitly derive all possible exact solutions admitted by the constraint equation for rr independent poloidal surfaces, which are given in terms of the electromagnetic angular velocity function Ω=1/asin2θ\Omega = 1/a\sin^2\theta, where aa is the angular momentum per unit mass of the black hole.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0511661,
  title  = {A Class of Exact Solution to the Blandford-Znajek Process},
  author = {Govind Menon and Charles D. Dermer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0511661},
  year   = {2008}
}

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