Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-24
Astrophys.J.635:167-172,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/497321
We investigate the iron K$\alpha$ fluorescent line produced by hard X-ray photons from magnetic reconnection-heated corona. The hot corona with temperature being about $10^9$K can irradiate the underlying disk with a continuum X-ray spectrum produced via thermal Comptonization. Then the iron atoms in the disk photoelectrically absorb X-ray photons and radiate K$\alpha$ line photons. Therefore, the activity of corona is responsible to the iron line emission from the underlying disk. In previous studies, oversimplified X-ray photon sources are often assumed above the disk in order to compute the iron line profile or power-law line emissivity profiles are assumed with an index being a free parameter. We adopt the more realistic corona model constructed by Liu et al. in which the corona is heated by magnetic energy released through the reconnection of magnetic flux loops and which has no free parameter. Then the accretion energy is dominantly dissipated in the corona, in which X-ray photons are efficiently produced and irradiate the underlying disk. We find the local emmisivity of iron line on the disk is approximated as $F_{{\rm K}\alpha}(r)\propto r^{-5}$. The iron line profiles derived from this model give excellent fits to the observational data of MCG-6-30-15 with the profiles derived theoretically for $i\sim 30^{\circ}$ for energy band 4-7keV. Possible origins of line variability are briefly discussed.
Iwasawa Kashuzi
Kawanaka Norita
Mineshige Shin
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