Abstract
In the paper we study the process of excitation of Langmuir waves in the magnetospheres of active galactic nuclei (AGN), by taking a general-relativistic expression of the GoldreichJulian density into account. We considered the linearised set of equations which describe dynamics of the studied mechanism: the Euler equation, the continuity equation and the Poisson equation. After solving the dispersion relation and obtaining the instability growth rate, we explored it versus several physical parameters: electron’s and proton’s relativistic factors and the mass and luminosity of AGN, which are supposed to be Kerr black holes. We showed that the parametric process of energy pumping into the Langmuir waves is very efficient and the electrostatic field’s amplitude will be exponentially amplifying, which might account for pair creation, particle acceleration and plasma heating processes in the nearby regions of AGN.
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