A Disc-Corona Model for a Rotating Black Hole

Details A Disc-Corona Model for a Rotating Black Hole A Disc-Corona Model for a Rotating Black Hole

2012-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/1204.3289v1

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 2012, 420: 1415-1422

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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We propose a disc-corona model in which a geometrically thin, optically thick disc surrounds a Kerr black hole, and magnetic fields exert a time-steady torque on the inner edge of the accretion disc. The analytical expression of the total gravitational power is derived from the thin-disc dynamics equations by using this new boundary condition. It is shown that the magnetic torque can considerably enhance the amount of energy released in the disc-corona system. Furthermore, the global solutions of this disc-corona system are obtained numerically. We find that the fraction of the power dissipated into the corona in the total for such disc-corona system increases with the increasing dimensionless black hole spin parameter $a_\ast $, but is insensitive on the $\Delta \varepsilon $ which is the additional radiative efficiency parameter relevant to magnetic torque, for $\Delta\varepsilon > 1$. In addition, the emerged spectra from this disc-corona system are simulated by using Monte-Carlo method, and the effect of the different parameters on the output spectra is discussed.

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