Radiative Processes, Spectral States and Variability of Black-Hole Binaries

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2004-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403683v3

Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.155:99-119,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Proceedings of "Stellar-mass, intermediate-mass, and supermassive black holes", Kyoto, 10.2003

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTPS.155.99

We review radiative processes responsible for X-ray emission in hard (low) and soft (high) spectral states of black-hole binaries. The main process in the hard state appears to be scattering of blackbody photons from a cold disk by thermal electrons in a hot inner flow, and any contribution from nonthermal synchrotron emission is at most small. In the soft states, blackbody disk emission dominates energetically, and its high-energy tail is due to scattering by hybrid, thermal/nonthermal electrons, probably in active regions above the disk surface. State transitions appear to correspond to a variable inner radius of the cold disk driven by changes of the accretion rate. The existence of two accretion solutions, hot and cold, in a range of the accretion rate leads to hysteresis in low-mass X-ray binaries.

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