X-Ray Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei ---Comptonization of Self-Absorbed Cyclotron Higher Harmonics---

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Feb 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982pthph..67..485t&link_type=abstract

Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 485-498

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We investigate the emission of self-absorbed cyclotron higher harmonics and the subsequent Comptonization in a hot magnetized plasma in connection with the hard X-ray emission of active galactic nuclei. The absorption coefficients of cyclotron harmonics are numerically calculated for the relativistic Maxwellian distribution of electrons. For a typical case, such as with the electron temperature of ˜ 2×109 K, the magnetic field of ˜ 2×104 G and the optical thickness to Thomson scattering of ˜1, the plasma turns out to be optically thick up to a few hundred times the electron cyclotron frequency. By the Monte Carlo simulation we show that these soft photons in the infrared band are then Comptonized to produce hard X-ray emission with a power law spectrum. These results are applied to the hot inner region of the disk accretion onto a supermassive black hole, where such a plasma state is realized naturally. Although the resultant intensity and spectrum of the X-ray emission depend on the detailed structure of the accretion flow, they may well explain the dominant observed features. This mechanism is also applied to the galactic X-ray source Cyg X-1.

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