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8.13. The dynamo effect in magnetohydrodynamic accretion onto a rotating black hole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Masashi Egi
Affiliation:
CG lab. Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-01, Japan
Akira Tomimatsu
Affiliation:
CG lab. Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-01, Japan
Masaaki Takahashi
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aichi University of Education, Kariya, Aichi 448 Japan

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A rotaing black hole has interesting features which can't be seen in nonrotating cases. The most characteristic one is to induce differential rotaions at angular velocity ω in inertial frames. Astrophysically it might have various impacts on its surrounding accretion plasmas. In a stationary and axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic picture, it enables to directly extract the rotation energy of the black hole in the form of the outgoing Poynting flux. This process needs a condition ΩFH – ΩF) > 0 on the horizon r = rH, where ΩH ≡ ω|rH, and ΩF is the angular velocity of magnetosphere. However, it is not so clear how the extracted energy activates the magnetosphere. Recently, Kahnna and Camenzind (KC 1994,1995) proposed a possibility of a self-excitation mechanism of the electromagnetic fields, supported by a coupling between ω and the angular velocity of plasma Ω, through the magnetic diffusivity e of accretion plasmas. They called it ωΩ dynamo and tried to confirm this effect by numerical simulations. However no such growing cases were found in the initial conditions employed in the simulations (Brandenbrug 1996, KC 1996).

Type
Part II. Nuclear Interstellar Medium
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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