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Magnetic seed generation by plasma heat flux in accretion disks
Nicolás Villarroel-Sepúlveda, Felipe A. Asenjo, Pablo S. Moya
Context. Magnetic batteries are potential sources that may drive the generation of a seed magnetic field, even if this field is initially zero. These batteries can be the result of…
Magnetic Reconnection as a Mechanism for Energy Extraction from Rotating Black Holes
Luca Comisso, Felipe A. Asenjo
Spinning black holes store rotational energy that can be extracted. When a black hole is immersed in an externally supplied magnetic field, reconnection of magnetic field lines wit…
Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in Curved Spacetime and the Effect of Black Hole Rotation
Luca Comisso, Felipe A. Asenjo
Magnetic reconnection in curved spacetime is studied by adopting a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic model that retains collisionless effects for both electron-ion and pair…
Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Kerr Spacetime
Felipe A. Asenjo, Luca Comisso
The magnetic reconnection process is analyzed for relativistic magnetohydrodynamical plasmas around rotating black holes. A simple generalization of the Sweet-Parker model is used…
Magnetic field generation in curved spacetimes
Swadesh M. Mahajan, Felipe A. Asenjo
Using the generally covariant magnetofluid formalism for a hot plasma, a new curvature (of space time) driven mechanism for generating seed vorticity/magnetic field is presented. T…