On the variability and spectral distortion of fluorescent iron lines from black hole accretion discs

Details On the variability and spectral distortion of fluorescent iron lines from black hole accretion discs On the variability and spectral distortion of fluorescent iron lines from black hole accretion discs

May 2008

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 386, Issue 2, pp. 759-780.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Accretion, Accretion Discs, Relativity, Galaxies: Active, X-Rays: Binaries, X-Rays: Individual: Mcg-6-30-15

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We investigate the properties of fluorescent iron lines that arise as a result of the illumination of a black hole accretion disc by an X-ray source located above the disc's surface. We study in detail the light-bending model of the variability of the lines, extending previous work on the subject. We indicate that the bending of photon trajectories to the equatorial plane (a distinct property of the Kerr metric) is the most feasible effect underlying the reduced variability of the lines observed in several objects. A model involving an X-ray source with a varying radial distance, located within a few central gravitational radii around a rapidly rotating black hole, close to the disc's surface, may explain both the elongated red wing of the line profile and the complex variability pattern observed in MCG-6-30-15 by XMM-Newton. We also point out that illumination by radiation that returns to the disc (following the previous reflection) contributes significantly to the formation of the line profile in some cases. As a result of this effect, the line profile always has a pronounced blue peak (which is not observed in the deep minimum state in MCG-6-30-15), unless the reflecting material is absent within the innermost 2-3 gravitational radii.

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