Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2011-12-01
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
6 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
In accretion systems, outflows may have significant influence on the luminosity fluctuations. In this paper, following the Lyubarskii's general scheme, we revisit the power spectral density of luminosity fluctuations by taking into account the role of outflows. Our analysis is based on the assumption that the coupling between the local outflow and inflow is weak on the accretion rate fluctuations. We find that, for the inflow mass accretion rate $\dot M \propto r^{s}$, the power spectrum of flicker noise component will present a power-law distribution $p(f) \propto f^{-(1+4s/3)}$ for advection-dominated flows. We also obtain descriptions of $p(f)$ for both standard thin discs and neutrino-cooled discs, which show that the power-law index of a neutrino-cooled disc is generally larger than that of a photon-cooled disc. Furthermore, the obtained relationship between $p(f)$ and $s$ indicates the possibility of evaluating the strength of outflows by the power spectrum in X-ray binaries and gamma-ray bursts. In addition, we discuss the possible influence of the outflow-inflow coupling on our results.
Gu Wei-Min
Lin Da-Bin
Liu Tong
Lu Ju-Fu
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