General relativistic force-free electrodynamics: a new code and applications to black hole magnetospheres

被引:92
作者
McKinney, JC [1 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Inst Theory & Computat, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
black hole physics; magnetic fields; MHD; methods; numerical; galaxies; jets; gamma-rays; bursts;
D O I
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10087.x
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The force-free limit of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is often a reasonable approximation to model black hole and neutron star magnetospheres. We describe a general relativistic force-free (GRFFE) formulation that allows general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) codes to directly evolve the GRFFE equations of motion. Established, accurate and well-tested conservative GRMHD codes can simply add a new inversion piece of code to their existing code, while continuing to use all the already-developed facilities present in their GRMHD code. We show how to enforce the E.B= 0 constraint and energy conservation, and we introduce a simplified general model of the dissipation of the electric field to enforce the B-2-E-2 > 0 constraint. We also introduce a simplified yet general method to resolve current sheets, without much reconnection, over many dynamical times. This formulation is incorporated into an existing GRMHD code (HARM), which is demonstrated to give accurate and robust GRFFE results for Minkowski and black hole space-times.
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页码:1797 / 1807
页数:11
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