Electromagnetic extraction of rotational energy from disc-fed black holes: The strength of the Blandford-Znajek process

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 292, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 887-895

  Ghosh, Pranab ^a,b   Abramowicz, Marek A ^c  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Black hole physics; Radio continuum: galaxies

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; EXTRACTION; GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; LUMINANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; STARS;

'CURRENT; ACCRETION DISCS; ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; MAGNETIC-FIELD; RADIO CONTINUUM: GALAXIES; RADIO GALAXIES; ROTATIONAL ENERGY; STATES OF KNOWLEDGE;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0000168439     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/292.4.887     Document Type: Article

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