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Non-thermal high-energy emissions from black holes by a relativistic capillary effect

Astrophysics 2010-01-06 v1

Abstract

Gravitational spin-orbit interactions induce a relativistic capillary effect along open magnetic flux-tubes, that join the event horizon of a spinning black hole to infinity. It launches a leptonic outflow from electron-positron pairs created near the black hole, which terminates in an ultra-relativistic Alfv\'en wave. Upstream to infinity, it maintains a clean linear accelerator for baryons picked-up from an ionized ambient environment. We apply it to the origin of UHECRs and to spectral energy correlations in cosmological gamma-ray bursts. The former is identified with the Fermi-level of the black hole event horizon, the latter with a correlation EpT901/2EγE_pT_{90}^{1/2}\simeq E_\gamma in HETE-II and Swift data.

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@article{arxiv.0803.2067,
  title  = {Non-thermal high-energy emissions from black holes by a relativistic capillary effect},
  author = {Maurice H. P. M. van Putten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2067},
  year   = {2010}
}

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