Correlation between Compton reflection and X-ray slope in Seyferts and BH binaries

Details Correlation between Compton reflection and X-ray slope in Seyferts and BH binaries Correlation between Compton reflection and X-ray slope in Seyferts and BH binaries

Dec 1998

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Abstracts of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, held in Paris, France, Dec. 14-18, 1998. Eds.:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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We find a very strong correlation between the spectral slopes in X-rays and the amount of Compton reflection from a cold medium in both black-hole binaries in the hard state and Seyferts. The existence of the correlation implies a dominant role of the reflecting medium as a source of seed soft photons for thermal Comptonization in the primary X-ray source, which puts strong constraints on source geometry. At a given spectral slope, black-hole binaries have similar or stronger reflection than Seyferts.

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