A Population of Faint Non-Transient Low Mass Black Hole Binaries

Details A Population of Faint Non-Transient Low Mass Black Hole Binaries A Population of Faint Non-Transient Low Mass Black Hole Binaries

1998-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810186v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LateX, 37 pages, 11 figures; Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/306878

We study the thermal and viscous stability of accretion flows in Low Mass Black Hole Binaries (LMBHBs). We consider a model in which an inner advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) is surrounded by a geometrically thin accretion disk, the transition between the two zones occurring at a radius R_tr. In all the known LMBHBs, R_tr appears to be such that the outer disks could suffer from a global thermal-viscous instability. This instability is likely to cause the transient behavior of these systems. However, in most cases, if R_tr were slightly larger than the estimated values, the systems would be globally stable. This suggests that a population of faint persistent LMBHBs with globally stable outer disks could be present in the Galaxy. Such LMBHBs would be hard to detect because they would lack large amplitude outbursts, and because their ADAF zones would have very low radiative efficiencies, making the systems very dim. We present model spectra of such systems covering the optical and X-ray bands.

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