The Structure of Magnetically Dominated Black Hole Magnetospheres

ORAL

Abstract

In the stationary and axisymmetric limit, ideal black hole magnetospheres can be largely described by the distributions of four field-aligned conserved quantities: field line angular velocity, energy flux, angular momentum flux, and particle flux. In this talk I will present how different distributions of those conserved quantities can modify the structure of ingoing energy-extracting black hole magnetospheres in the magnetically dominated limit. Distributions that might be of more astrophysical interest will be presented, along with a discussion of the relaxation of the force-free approximation and the explicit consideration of plasma properties.

Authors

  • Kevin Thoelecke

    • Montana State University
  • Masaaki Takahashi

    • Aichi University of Education
  • Sachiko Tsuruta

    • Montana State University