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External Sources of Poynting Flux in MHD Simulations of Black Hole Ergospheres
Brian Punsly
This article investigates the physics that is responsible for creating the outgoing Poynting flux emanating from the ergosphere of a rotating black hole in the limit that the magne…
PKS 074367: An Ultra-luminous Accretion Disk and a High Kinetic Luminosity Jet
Brian Punsly, Steven Tingay
In this letter, deep radio observations of the quasar PKS 074367 are presented that reveal a central engine capable of driving jets with enormous kinetic luminosity, $Q>4.1 \tim…
PKS 1622-253: A Weakly Accreting, Powerful Gamma Ray Source
Brian Punsly, Luis Rodriguez, Steven Tingay +1
In this Letter, we discuss new deep radio observations of PKS 1622-253 and their implications for the energetics of the central engine that powers this strong high energy gamma-ray…
Relativistic Motion of Spinning Particles in a Gravitational Field
C. Chicone, B. Mashhoon, B. Punsly
The relative motion of a classical relativistic spinning test particle is studied with respect to a nearby free test particle in the gravitational field of a rotating source. The e…
Inertial Current Generators of Poynting Flux in MHD Simulations of Black Hole Ergospheres
Brian Punsly
This Letter investigates the physics that is responsible for creating the current system that supports the outgoing Poynting flux emanating from the ergosphere of a rotating black…
An Independent Derivation of the Oxford Jet Kinetic Luminosity Formula
Brian Punsly
This letter presents a theoretical derivation of an estimate for a radio source jet kinetic luminosity. The expression yields jet powers that are quantitatively similar to a more s…