On the spectral hardening factor of the X-ray emission from accretion disks in black hole candidates

Details On the spectral hardening factor of the X-ray emission from accretion disks in black hole candidates On the spectral hardening factor of the X-ray emission from accretion disks in black hole candidates

Jun 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995apj...445..780s&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 445, no. 2, p. 780-788

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

262

Accretion Disks, Black Holes (Astronomy), Mathematical Models, Radiative Transfer, X Ray Spectra, X Ray Stars, Active Galactic Nuclei, Black Body Radiation, Eddington Approximation, Emission Spectra, Schwarzschild Metric

Scientific paper

Radiation spectrum and the spectral hardening factor of an accretion disk around a Schwarzschild black hole with a mass of 1.4, 3, and 10 solar mass are determined by solving the vertical structure and radiative transfer self-consistently. When a viscous parameter alpha is approximately 0.1, for accretion rates close to Eddington limit, the local spectrum can be described by the diluted blackbody spectrum with the spectral hardening factor f approximately 1.8 - 2.0 which is almost independent of a radial position and black hole mass. For approximately 10% of the Eddington rate, the local spectrum emitted from an inner region can be approximated by the diluted blackbody with f approximately 1.7. For accretion rates lower than 1% of the Eddington limit, the local spectrum cannot be fitted with any f. For accretion rates close to the Eddington limit, f increases with an increase of alpha in an inner region for alpha is greater than 0.1, and the radial dependence of f also becomes large gradually. We have applied our results to the observations of LMC X-3, and have estimated the mass of the black hole in LMC X-3 as greater than or equal to 7 solar mass.

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