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arxiv: 1505.04781 · v1 · pith:FNBBP3JKnew · submitted 2015-05-18 · 🌀 gr-qc

Constraints on force-free magnetospheres for Kerr(-AdS) black holes with non-null currents

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Force-free magnetospheres are of particular interest due to their role in energy extraction from Kerr black holes via the Blandford-Znajek process. Recently, a class of exact analytic solutions has been found with null currents [1,2]. In this paper, we elaborate some constraints on various force-free magnetosphere solutions with non-null currents, utilizing the Newman-Penrose electromagnetic scalars to categorize a range of different cases. We perform a thorough search for stationary and axisymmetric (SAS) solutions, and find that putative SAS solutions within the categories considered generically exhibit singularities on the horizon. We also present some non-SAS solutions found via spacetime-dependent electric-magnetic duality rotations. Additional special solutions in flat, pure AdS and near-horizon-extreme-Kerr (NHEK) spacetimes are also presented.

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