Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to thefrontiers of research in this book. GHM describes plasma interactions that combine the effects of gravity and a strong magnetic field, in the vicinity (ergosphere) of a rapidly rotating black hole. This topic was created in response to the astrophysical quest to understand the central engines of radio loud extragalactic radio sources. The theory describes a ‘torsional tug of war’ between rotating ergospheric plasma and the distant asymptotic plasma that extracts the rotational inertia of the black hole. The recoil from the struggle betweenelectromagnetic and gravitational forces near the event horizon is manifestedas a powerful pair of magnetized particle beams (jets) that are ejected at nearly the speed of light. Presents to the researcher and PhD student the fundamental subjects that are necessary to understand the interaction between the gravitational field of a rotating black hole and a plasma-filled magnetosphere Discusses details of energy extraction from a rotation black hole by magnetic fields Presents the latest results of numerical simulations of ergospheric jet formation in an accretion flow INDICE: Introduction.- Relativistic Plasma Physics.- Particle Trajectoriesin the Ergosphere.- Vacuum Electrodynamics.- Magnetically Dominated Time Stationary Perfect MHD Winds.- Perfect MHD Winds and Waves in the Ergosphere.- Ergosphere Driven Winds.- Ergospheric Disk Dynamos.- Winds from Event Horizon Magnetospheres.- Applications to the Theory of Extragalactic Radio Sources - Numerical Results.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-76955-2
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 440
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés