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Magnetic Fields of Black Holes and the Variability Plane

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-03-01 v1

Abstract

We estimated the magnetic field strength at the horizon radius of black holes, that is derived by the magnetic coupling process and depended on the black hole mass MBHM_{BH} and the accretion rate M˙\dot{M}. Our estimation is based on the use of the fundamental variability plane for stellar mass black holes, AGNs and QSOs. The typical values of magnetic field strength on the black hole horizon are appeared at the level of BBH108B_{BH}\sim 10^8G for stellar mass black holes and BBH104B_{BH}\sim 10^4G for the supermassive black holes. We have obtained the relation plνb1/2p_l\sim \nu^{-1/2}_b between the intrinsic polarization of the accretion disk radiation and the characteristic frequency of the black hole X-ray variability.

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@article{arxiv.1002.4948,
  title  = {Magnetic Fields of Black Holes and the Variability Plane},
  author = {M. Yu. Piotrovich and N. A. Silant'ev and Yu. N. Gnedin and T. M. Natsvlishvili},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.4948},
  year   = {2010}
}

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