The papers that he quotes as supporting his work, i wonder if the
magnetic propeller is more real than the event horizon.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402445
Authors: Stanley L. Robertson, Darryl J. Leiter
Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure. Accepted by MNRAS
Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) 1391
In previous work we found that the spectral state switch and other spectral properties of both neutron star (NS) and galactic black hole candidates (GBHC), in low mass x-ray binary systems could be explained by a magnetic propeller effect that requires an intrinsically magnetic central compact object. In later work we showed that intrinsically magnetic GBHC could be easily accommodated by general relativity in terms of magnetospheric eternally collapsing objects (MECO), with lifetimes greater than a Hubble time, and examined some of their spectral properties. In this work we show how a standard thin accretion disk and corona can interact with the central magnetic field in atoll class NS, and GBHC and active galactic nuclei (AGN) modeled as MECO, to produce jets that emit radio through infrared luminosity $L_R$ that is correlated with mass and x-ray luminosity as $L_R \propto M^{0.75 - 0.92}L_x^{2/3}$ up to a mass scale invariant cutoff at the low/high spectral state switch. Comparing the MECO-GBHC/AGN model to observations, we find that the correlation exponent, the mass scale invariant cutoff, and the radio luminosity ratios of AGN, GBHC and atoll class NS are correctly predicted, which strongly implies that GBHC and AGN have observable intrinsic magnetic moments and hence do not have event horizons.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102381
Authors: Stanley L. Robertson, Darryl J. Leiter
Comments: Submitted to ApJ, Feb. 22, 2001, minor errors corrected and introduction rewritten in present version. 8 pages
Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 565 (2002) 447-454
We present evidence that the power law part of the quiescent x-ray emissions of neutron stars in low mass x-ray binaries is magnetospheric in origin. It can be very accurately calculated from known rates of spin and magnetic moments determined from the the $\sim 10^{3 - 4}$ times brighter luminosity at the transition to the hard spectral state. This strongly suggests that the spectral state transition for neutron stars is a magnetospheric propeller effect. We test the hypothesis that the similar spectral state switches and quiescent power law emissions of the black hole candidates might also be magnetospheric effects. In the process we derive proposed magnetic moments and rates of spin for them and accurately predict their quiescent luminosities. This constitutes an observational test for the physical realization of event horizons and suggests that they may not be formed during the gravitational collapse of ordinary matter.