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Energy self-extraction of a Kerr black hole through its frame-dragged force-free magnetosphere

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-04-17 v7 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

It is shown that when only the condition} 0<ΩF<ΩH0<\Omega_{\rm F}<\Omega_{\rm H} is satisfied, the Kerr black hole frame-drags its surrounding force-free magnetosphere with the field-line-angular-velocity (FLAV) ΩF\Omega_{\rm F}, where ΩH\Omega_{\rm H} is the horizon angular-velocity. Then, the zero-angular-momentum-observers (ZAMOs) circulating with the frame-dragging-angular-velocity ω\omega will see that the `null surface' SN_{\rm N} where ωN=ΩF\omega_{\rm N}=\Omega_{\rm F} always exists. They will see that the outer domain D(out)D_{\rm (out)} outside SN_{\rm N} is prograde-rotating with ΩFω>0\Omega_{{\rm F} \omega}>0, whereas the inner domain D(in)D_{\rm (in)} inside is retrograde-rotating with ΩFω<0\Omega_{{\rm F} \omega}<0, where ΩFω=ΩFω\Omega_{{\rm F} \omega}=\Omega_{{\rm F}} - \omega denotes the ZAMO-FLAV. `This surface' SN_{\rm N} must be the magneto-centrifugal divider of the force-free magnetosphere, with a kind of plasma-shed on it. Subsequently, the force-free and freezing-in conditions break down on SN_{\rm N}, thereby allowing the particle-current sources to be set up on SN_{\rm N}. `This surface' also is the ZAM-surface SZAMD_{\rm ZAMD}, on which no flow of angular momentum nor electric current can cross. Because the electric field Ep{\bf E}_{\rm p} reverses sign on SN_{\rm N}, the Poynting flux reverses direction from outward to inward on SN_{\rm N}. An electromagnetic self-extraction of energy will be possible only through the frame-dragged magnetosphere, with the inner domain D(in)D_{\rm (in)} nested between the horizon and `this surface' SN_{\rm N}, in order to comply with the first and second laws of thermodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1904.11978,
  title  = {Energy self-extraction of a Kerr black hole through its frame-dragged force-free magnetosphere},
  author = {Isao Okamoto and Yoogeun Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11978},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, 4 figures