Hertz potential formalism for force-free electrodynamics and its application to Brennan–Gralla–Jacobson solutions
Hertz potential formalism for force-free electrodynamics and its application to Brennan–Gralla–Jacobson solutions
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无力电动力学的赫兹势形式及其在 Brennan-Gralla-Jacobson 解中的应用
DOI:
10.1142/s0218271816500395
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Zhoujian Cao (曹周键)
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作者:
Xiaokai He (何孝凯);Zhoujian Cao (曹周键)
The Hertz potential is a powerful tool for the source-free electrodynamics. Especially.for the algebraically special spacetime background, the Hertz potential formalism simplifies the Maxwell equations quite much. In astrophysics, strong electric–magnetic field.is very common. Force-free electrodynamics is a good approximation for strong enough.electric–magnetic field compared to the inertial energy of the involved plasma. For example, the force-free model has been extensively used to describe the magnetosphere of stars.in the universe. In this paper, we extend the Hertz potential formalism to the force-free.electrodynamics. The Hertz potential formalism simplifies the force-free dynamical equations as much as that in the source-free case. As an application, we use the Hertz potential.formalism to the Schwarzschild background. And the Brennan–Gralla–Jacobson solutions are recovered straightforwardly.