Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-08-22
Astrophys.Space Sci. 276 (2001) 241-242
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20011360
It has been recognized long ago that the presence of hot plasma in the inner accretion disks around black holes could lead to the neutron production via dissociation of helium nuclei. We show that, for a broad range of accretion parameters, neutrons effectively decouple from protons and pile up in the inner disk leading to the formation of self-sustained halo. This means that new neutrons in the halo are supplied mainly by the splitting of helium nuclei in their collisions with existing neutrons. Once formed, such a halo can exist even if the proton temperature is much lower than the energy threshold of helium dissociation. We show that neutron haloes can be the natural source of relativistic electrons and positrons, providing characteristic comptonization spectra and hard spectral tails observed in many black hole candidates, and also giving rise to relativistic outflows. Deuterium gamma-ray line at 2.2 MeV resulting from neutron capture is also expected at a level detectable by future INTEGRAL mission. Furthermore, the presence of a neutron halo strongly affects the dynamics of accretion and leads to the rich variety of transient dynamical regimes.
Belyanin Alexey
Derishev Evgeny V.
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