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 . Using this fact and the Znajek regularity condition, we explicitly derive all possible exact solutions admitted by the constraint equation for independent poloidal surfaces, which are given in terms of the electromagnetic angular velocity function , where 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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