Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-06-15
ApJ, 561, 660 (2001)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
30 pages (including 8 figures); minor changes, to appear in ApJ, Nov. 10, 2001
Scientific paper
10.1086/323259
We study the effects of the bulk motion of X-ray flares on the shape and equivalent width of the iron Kalpha line from an untruncated cold disk around a Kerr black hole using fully relativistic calculations. The flares are located above a cold accretion disk -- either on or off the rotation axis. For on- or off-axis flares, the upward/outward bulk motion causes a reduction of the iron Kalpha line width. To a distant observer with a low inclination angle (\theta_o \simlt 30deg.), larger upward/outward bulk velocities decrease the extension of the red wing, with little change in the location of the blue `edge'. In contrast, an observer at a large inclination angle (e.g. \theta_o=60deg.) sees both the red wing and the blue `edge' change with the bulk velocity. The equivalent width of the iron Kalpha line decreases rapidly with increasing bulk velocity of flares. However, the `narrower' line profiles observed in some objects (e.g. IC4329A and NGC4593) are difficult to produce using the out-flowing magnetic flare model with an appropriate equivalent width unless the X-ray emission is concentrated in an outer region with a radius of several tens of r_g=GM/c^2 or more. An important result is that the iron Kalpha line intensity is found to be constant even though the continuum flux varies significantly, which is true for out-flowing magnetic flares with different bulk velocities but similar intrinsic luminosities when located close to the central black hole. We find that fluctuations in the bulk velocities of out-flowing low-height flares located at the inner region (r\simlt 15r_g) can account for a constant iron Kalpha line and significant continuum variation as observered in MCG-6-30-15 and NGC5548. (Abridged)
Lu Youjun
Yu Qingjuan
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