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arxiv: 1408.3514 · v3 · pith:NLWBWIEYnew · submitted 2014-08-15 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.HE

Local, Non-Geodesic, Timelike Currents in the Force-Free Magnetosphere of a Kerr Black Hole

classification 🌀 gr-qc astro-ph.HE
keywords force-freemagnetospherecurrentdominatedelectromagneticfieldkerrsolutions
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In this paper, we use previously developed exact solutions to present some of the curious features of a force-free magnetosphere in a Kerr background. More precisely, we obtain a hitherto unseen timelike current in the force-free magnetosphere that does not flow along a geodesic. The electromagnetic field in this case happens to be magnetically dominated. This too is a feature that has entered the literature for the first time. Changing the sign of a single parameter in our solutions generates a spacelike current that creates an electromagnetic field that is electrically dominated.

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