Efficiency of magnetic to kinetic energy conversion in a monopole magnetosphere

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 699, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1789-1808

  Tchekhovskoy, Alexander ^a   McKinney, Jonathan C ^b   Narayan, Ramesh ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: jets; Gamma rays: bursts; Methods: analytical; Methods: numerical; MHD; Relativity; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149160858     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/2/1789     Document Type: Article

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