An unstable central disk in the superluminal black-hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105

Details An unstable central disk in the superluminal black-hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 An unstable central disk in the superluminal black-hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105

1997-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9702048v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 2 PS figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/310595

We have analyzed the X-ray spectra of the microquasar GRS 1915+105, as observed with the PCA on the Rossi XTE, during periods of stable weak emission, outbursts and rapid flaring. We find that the complicated X-ray intensity curve of this source can be described by the rapid removal and replenishment of matter forming the inner part of an optically thick accretion disk, probably caused by a thermal-viscous instability analogous to that operating in dwarf novae, but here driven by the Lightman-Eardley instability. We find that the mass accretion rate in quiescence is 10^-6 solar masses per year. Only a small fraction of the energy liberated by accretion is emitted as radiation. We suggest that most of this energy is advected into the black hole in the high-viscosity state of the outburst cycle.

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