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most citedPhysics of Pair Producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres II -- General Relativity

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Resonant Inverse Compton Scattering and Hard X-ray Emission in Magnetar Magnetospheres

Kun Hu, Nicholas Rackers, Alexander Y. Chen

Magnetars are a subclass of neutron stars with ultra-strong surface magnetic fields. Some magnetars exhibit persistent hard X-ray emission, characterized by power-law tails with ph…

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Collisionless Accretion of Finite-Angular-Momentum Plasma onto a Spinning Black Hole

John M. Mehlhaff, Alexander Y. Chen, Martin Luepker +1

In low-luminosity active galactic nuclei like M87* and Sgr A*, the accretion disk around the central supermassive black hole is tenuous and collisionless. As a result, the usual id…