Phase Difference and Coherence as Diagnistics of Accreting Compact Sources

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1997-03-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9703113v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, Latex, using AAS macro, to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.53971

We present calculations of the time lags and the coherence function of X-ray photons for a novel model of radiation emission from accretion powered, high-energy sources. Our model involves only Comptonization of soft photons injected near the compact object in an extended but non-uniform atmosphere around the compact object. Our results show that this model produces time lags between the hard and soft bands of the X-ray spectrum which increase with Fourier period, in agreement with recent observations; it also produces a coherence function equal to one over a wide range of frequencies if the system parameters do not have significant changes, also in agreement with the limited existing observations. We explore various conditions that could affect coherence functions. We indicate that measurements of these statistical quantities could provide diagnostics of the radial structure of the density of this class of sources.

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