Magnetic coupling of a rotating black hole with its surrounding accretion disk

Details Magnetic coupling of a rotating black hole with its surrounding accretion disk Magnetic coupling of a rotating black hole with its surrounding accretion disk

2003-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306083v1

Astrophys.J. 595 (2003) 109-119

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 19 figures. Accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/377303

Effects of magnetic coupling (MC) of a rotating black hole (BH) with its surrounding accretion disk are discussed in detail in the following aspects: (i) The mapping relation between the angular coordinate on the BH horizon and the radial coordinate on the disk is modified based on a more reasonable configuration of magnetic field, and a condition for coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and the MC process is derived. (ii) The transfer direction of energy and angular momentum in MC process is described equivalently by the co-rotation radius and by the flow of electromagnetic angular momentum and redshifted energy, where the latter is based on an assumption that the theory of BH magnetosphere is applicable to both the BZ and MC processes. (iii) The profile of the current on the BH horizon and that of the current density flowing from the magnetosphere onto the horizon are given in terms of the angular coordinate of the horizon. It is shown that the current on the BH horizon varies with the latitude of the horizon and is not continuous at the angular boundary between the open and closed magnetic field lines. (iv) The MC effects on disk radiation are discussed, and a very steep emissivity is produced by MC process, which is consistent with the recent XMM-Newton observation of the nearby bright Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 by a variety of parameters of the BH-disk system.

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