Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1994-06-01
Astrophys.J. 431 (1994) L39
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript with figures, NRL94-05-01
Scientific paper
10.1086/187467
We show that gamma ray line emission at $\sim$0.4 MeV and $\lsim 0.2$ MeV can be produced by Compton scattering of beamed radiation in the jets of Galactic black hole candidates. This mechanism has the novel feature of not invoking the presence of $e^+$--$e^-$ pairs. To produce the two lines we employ a symmetric double sided jet with bulk flow velocity of about 0.5 c and incident beam radiation with a hard energy spectrum. We show that the two lines can be seen at viewing angle cosines relative to the jet ranging from 0.2 to 0.6. This comprises 40\% of the total solid angle. In addition, the line radiation is approximately 10\% polarized. Depending on the bulk flow and viewing angle the model can produce lines at other energies as well. In particular a broad feature near 1 MeV can be seen by viewing the jet close to its axis. Our model can also accommodate single line spectra if the beamed gamma ray emission or the jets themselves are asymmetric.
Dermer Carles D.
Ramaty Reuven
Skibo Jeffery G.
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