Electric Penrose process: High-energy acceleration of ionized particles by nonrotating weakly charged black hole

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.084099" target="_blank" >https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.084099</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.084099" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevD.104.084099</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Electric Penrose process: High-energy acceleration of ionized particles by nonrotating weakly charged black hole

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In many astrophysical scenarios the charge of the black hole is often neglected due to unrealistically large values of the charge required for the Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime metric. However, black holes may possess small electric charge due to various selective accretion mechanisms. In this paper we investigate the effect of a small hypothetical electric charge of a Schwarzschild black hole on the ionization of a freely falling neutral particle and subsequent escape of the ionized particle from the black hole. We show that the energy of ionized particle can grow ultrahigh and discuss distinguishing signatures of particle acceleration by weakly charged black holes. We also discuss a possible application of the proposed mechanism as an alternative cosmic ray acceleration scenario. In particular we show that the Galactic center supermassive black hole is capable to act as a PeVatron of protons. The presented mechanism can serve as a simple toy model of a nonrotating compact object acting as a particle accelerator with a potential astrophysical implementations related to the cosmic ray physics and beyond.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Electric Penrose process: High-energy acceleration of ionized particles by nonrotating weakly charged black hole

Popis výsledku anglicky

In many astrophysical scenarios the charge of the black hole is often neglected due to unrealistically large values of the charge required for the Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime metric. However, black holes may possess small electric charge due to various selective accretion mechanisms. In this paper we investigate the effect of a small hypothetical electric charge of a Schwarzschild black hole on the ionization of a freely falling neutral particle and subsequent escape of the ionized particle from the black hole. We show that the energy of ionized particle can grow ultrahigh and discuss distinguishing signatures of particle acceleration by weakly charged black holes. We also discuss a possible application of the proposed mechanism as an alternative cosmic ray acceleration scenario. In particular we show that the Galactic center supermassive black hole is capable to act as a PeVatron of protons. The presented mechanism can serve as a simple toy model of a nonrotating compact object acting as a particle accelerator with a potential astrophysical implementations related to the cosmic ray physics and beyond.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-03950S" target="_blank" >GA19-03950S: Testování silné gravitace prostřednictvím černých děr</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Physical Review D

ISSN

2470-0010

e-ISSN

2470-0029

Svazek periodika

104

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

8

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

„084099-1“-„084099-9“

Kód UT WoS článku

000712574800021

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85119113706