2005/05/19 by Ioana Dutan, Dutan, Ioana, Peter L. Biermann +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0505403
4 pages, 1 figure. To be published in the proceedings of the XXXXth Rencontres de Moriond: "Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe"
arxiv created 2005/05/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We present a theoretical model for driving jets by accretion onto Kerr black holes and try to give an answer to the following question: How much energy could be extracted from a rotating black hole and its accretion disk in order to power relativistic jets in Active Galactic Nuclei?