Models of phase lags in the rapid aperiodic variability of X-ray binaries

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Oct 2001

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GAMMA 2001: Gamma-Ray Astrophysics 2001. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 587, pp. 71-75 (2001).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

X-Ray Binaries, X-Ray Sources, X-Ray Bursts, Mathematical Procedures And Computer Techniques

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The most popular models for the complex phase and time lags in the rapid aperiodic variability of Galactic X-ray binaries are based Comptonization of soft seed photons in a hot corona, where small-scale flares are induced by flares of the soft seed photon input (presumably from a cold accretion disc). However, in their original version, these models have neglected the additional cooling of the coronal plasma due to the increased soft seed photon input, and assumed a static coronal temperature structure. In this paper, our Monte-Carlo/Fokker-Planck code for time-dependent radiation transfer and electron energetics is used to simulate the self-consistent coronal response to the various flaring scenarios that have been suggested to explain phase and time lags observed in some Galactic X-ray binaries. It is found that the predictions of models involving slab-coronal geometries are drastically different from those deduced under the assumption of a static corona. However, with the inclusion of coronal cooling they may even be more successful than in their original version in explaining some of the observed phase and time lag features. .

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