Screw instability of the magnetic field connecting a rotating black hole with its surrounding disk

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 601, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 1031-1037

  Wang, Ding Xiong ^a   Ma, Ren Yi ^a   Lei, Wei Hua ^a   Yao, Guo Zheng ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accretion, Accretion disks; Black hole physics; Magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842427900     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380782     Document Type: Article

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