Jets Driven by Accretion Onto Spinning Black Holes
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present a theoretical model for driving jets by accretion onto Kerr black holes and try to give an answer to the following question: How much energy could be extracted from a rotating black hole and its accretion disk in order to power relativistic jets in Active Galactic Nuclei?
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0505403,
title = {Jets Driven by Accretion Onto Spinning Black Holes},
author = {Ioana Dutan and Peter L. Biermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0505403},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure. To be published in the proceedings of the XXXXth Rencontres de Moriond: "Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe"