Electron/positron/gamma ray beams in cosmic radio sources
Further study has been made of an electrodynamic model for the origin of the beams which are thought to power extra galactic double radio sources. In this model the rotating magnetized accretion disk of a massive black hole acts as a unipolar induction dynamo. Energy and angular momentum of the infalling matter of the disk is extracted electromagnetically and propagated outward along the z axes initially as the Poynting flux of a relativistic space charge flow. Such a non neutral flow is possible in the otherwise empty vortex funnels which exist in accretion flows of matter with angular momentum. An analysis of the space charge flow is made utilizing the analog with laboratory high voltage, magnetically insulated transmission lines. The magnetic insulation is predicted to undergo electrical breakdown at a distance ~z providing a termination for the transmission line. At the termination the Poynting flux is transformed into particle kinetic energy. In general, the termination will be matched and some frac.