Black Hole Astrophysics 2002: Proceedings of the Sixth Apctp Winter School, Pohang, Korea 9-12 January 2002

by Apctp Winter School 2002 (Pohang, Korea); Lee, Hyun Kyu; Park, Myeong-Gu; Lee, Hyun Kyu; Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics

• ISBN13: 9789812381248
• ISBN10: 9812381244
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book consists of about 20 lectures on theoretical and observational aspects of astrophysical black holes, by experts in the field. The basic principles and astrophysical applications of the black hole magnetosphere and the Blandford-Znajek process are reviewed in detail, as well as accretion by black holes, black hole X-Ray binaries, black holes with cosmic strings, and so on. Recent advances in X-Ray observations of galactic black holes and new understanding of supermassive black holes in AGNs and normal galaxies are also discussed.

Table of Contents

Preface
X-ray Observations of Galactic Black Hole Candidates	p. 3
Chandra Deep X-ray Observation on the Galactic Plane	p. 25
Black Holes and Cosmic Strings	p. 39
Black Holes in Brans-Dicke Gravity: A Possible Constituent of Cold Dark Matter?	p. 61
A Set of Bondi-like Quasi-Local Quantities for Vacuum Spacetimes	p. 79
Resonant Behaviors of Massive Scalar Fields in Black Hole Spacetimes	p. 89
Magnetic Extraction of Rotational Energy	p. 109
Non-Vanishing Magnetic Flux through the Slightly-Charged Kerr Black Hole	p. 133
Stationary versus Nonstationary Force-Free Black Hole Magnetospheres	p. 155
Accretion Flow onto Black Holes	p. 169
Advective Accretion Disks around Black Holes with Account of Magnetic Fields	p. 187
Magnetorotational Mechanism of Supernovae Explosion and Jet Formation	p. 207
Observational Appearance of Magnetic Field Reconnections in Single Black Hole Accretion Flow	p. 227
Dynamics of Black Hole Clusters with Rotation	p. 249
Black Hole to Bulge Mass Correlation, the Cosmic Star Formation History Inferred from X-ray Deep Surveys	p. 259
Spectropolarimetry and Unification of Active Galactic Nuclei	p. 271
Detecting the Energy Source in the Hottest Tango in the Universe: A Torus around a Kerr Black Hole	p. 291
Black Hole Soft X-ray Transients as Relics of Gamma-ray Bursts	p. 313
GRB Explosion in a Galactic Supershell: GRB971214	p. 333
Vistas in Numerical Relativity	p. 343
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