Astrophysics and Space Science Library

By: Brian Punsly

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Hardcover | 27 October 2008 | Edition Number 2

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416 Pages

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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.

Industry Reviews

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"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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Non-Fiction Science Physics Applied Physics Astrophysics Astronomy, Space & Time Galaxies & Stars Relativity Physics Solar System including The Sun & Planets Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Earth Sciences Geology & The Lithosphere

Classical Mathematics Gravity

Introduction	p. 1
Relativistic Plasma Physics	p. 35
Particle Trajectories in the Ergosphere	p. 79
Vacuum Electrodynamics	p. 103
Magnetically Dominated Time Stationary Perfect MHD Winds	p. 159
Perfect MHD Winds and Waves in the Ergosphere	p. 173
Ergosphere Driven Winds	p. 213
Ergospheric Disk Dynamos	p. 223
Winds From Event Horizon Magnetospheres	p. 249
Applications to the Theory of Extragalactic Radio Sources	p. 311
Numerical Results	p. 347
References	p. 387
Index	p. 393
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