Models for Accretion Disk Fluctuations through Self-Organized Criticality Including Relativistic Effects

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2000-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009424v1

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 52, 1097-1107 (2000)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 4 figures, in press in PASJ

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The possibility that some of the observed X-ray and optical variability in active galactic nuclei and galactic black hole candidates is produced in accretion disks through the development of a self-organized critical state is reconsidered. New simulations, including more complete calculations of relativistic effects, do show that this model can produce light-curves and power-spectra for the variability which agree with the range observed in optical and X-ray studies of AGN and X-ray binaries. However, the universality of complete self-organized criticality is not quite achieved. This is mainly because the character of the variations depend quite substantially on the extent of the unstable disk region. If it extends close to the innermost stable orbit then a physical scale is introduced and the scale-free character of self-organized criticality is vitiated. Significant dependence of the power spectrum density slope on the type of diffusion within the disk and a weaker dependence on the amount of differential rotation are noted. When general relativistic effects are incorporated in the models, additional substantial differences are produced if the disk is viewed from directions far from the accretion disk axis.

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