Spectral States and State Transitions in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries

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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.:

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I review a self-consistent model based on advection-dominated accretion flows that attempts to unify four out of five known spectral states of black hole X-ray binaries: the quiescent, low, intermediate and high states. This model provides a plausible explanation for state transitions observed both in transient and persistent systems. We show that the spectra and light curves calculated with this unified scenario agree well with observations of the soft X-ray Transients Nova Muscae, GRO J0422+32, as well as the persistent source Cyg X-1.

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