Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 355)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers 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 between electromagnetic and gravitational forces near the event horizon is manifested as a powerful pair of magnetized particle beams (jets) that are ejected at nearly the speed of light.
This second edition of the book is updated throughout and contains a completely new chapter discussing state of the art and results of numerical simulations of ergospheric disk jets occurring in magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows.
Reviews
From reviews of 1st edition:
"Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics is a serious and important book that should be studied and used by every researcher of black hole plasma astrophysics." (Marek Abramovicz: General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 35, No. 6, June 2003)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics
Authors: Brian Punsly
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76957-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76955-2Published: 27 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09563-4Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-76957-6Published: 15 December 2008
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 399
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Originally published in the series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
Topics: Planetology, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory