Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993a%26a...278..307b&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 278, no. 1, p. 307-314
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
36
Accretion Disks, Energetic Particles, Gamma Rays, Magnetic Fields, Thermal Radiation, X Ray Binaries, Absorptivity, Energy Dissipation, Relativistic Electron Beams
Scientific paper
The optical depth for the high energy gamma-ray photons on the anisotropic thermal radiation field, emitted by the accretion disk around a compact object, is computed. The gamma-ray photons are assumed to originate in the collisions of relativistic hadrons with matter entrained in the disk as postulated by some models of the gamma-ray production in X-ray binary systems. We predict that the gamma-ray telescopes designed to work in the energy range between a few GeV and approximately 0.1 TeV (Solar One, EGRET) may have serious problems with the detection of some X-ray binaries (e.g. Her X-1, Cen X-3), even if they are already positively detected in the TeV energy range. However, in the case of other X-ray binaries, similar to Vela X-1, the discussed process is negligible.
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