High Energy Plasmas, General Relativity and Collective Modes in the Vicinity of Black Holes*

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May 2009

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American Physical Society, 2009 APS April Meeting, May 2-5, 2009, abstract #K1.077

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Plasmas around black holes can take different equilibrium configurations^1 from those known from fluid theory as the vertical Lorentz compression due to plasma currents can overtake that of the gravitational force. In a disk with a ``seed'' magnetic field, axisymmetric modes as well as tri-dimensional spirals can be excited by the combined effects of the radial gradient of the plasma rotation frequency and of the plasma pressure gradient^2. The spirals' properties depend strongly on their vertical structure^3. Axisymmetric modes can produce vertical counter-flows of thermal energy and particles and be candidates for the origin of the winds emanating from disks in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN's)^2. The excitation of radially localized density spirals corotating with the plasma near a black hole can provide an explanation for^4 the observed Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPO's) of the X-ray emission from compact objects. Convective spiral modes^3 that are purely oscillatory in time and not localized radially can acquire their amplitudes from coupling to unstable modes and provide transport^3 of angular momentum toward the outer region of the disk structure.*Sponsored in part by the U.S. DOE. ^1B. Coppi and F. Rousseau, Ap. J., 641, 458 (2006). ^2B. Coppi, Europhys. Letters 82, 19001 (2008). ^3B. Coppi, MIT/LNS Report 08/08, submitted to A&A (2008). ^4B. Coppi and P. Rebusco, Paper P5.154, E.P.S. Conf. Pl. Phys. (Crete, 2008).

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