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Magnetohydrodynamic Shocks Near Rotating Black Holes: Author: Rilett, Darrell Jon; Date: 2003-08-15; Program: Physics; Abstract: The theory of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic standing shock formation is analyzed for accreting MHD plasma in a rotating, stationary, and axisymmetric black hole magnetosphere. All postshock physical quantities are expressed in terms of the relativistic compression ratio. The compression ratio is a solution of a seventh degree polynomial, incorporating the jump conditions, that is to be solved simultaneously with an equation for the polytropic index of the postshock plasma. Then the downstream state of the shocked plasma is determined entirely in terms of preshock quantities. Slow an...; Download File | View full details