Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-01-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages including one table and two figures, uses aaspp4. Accepted by ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/311233
We identify the X-Ray reflected component in the Ginga spectra of Nova Muscae 1991, a Black Hole transient system used as the prototype for the recent model of Esin, McClintock & Narayan (1997) based on advection dominated disk solutions. We see that the reflected spectrum is generally significantly relativistically smeared, and use this, together with the amplitude of reflection, to track the innermost extent of the accretion disk. The optically thick disk switches from being highly ionized to nearly neutral during the transition from high to low state, and the inner radius of the disk moves outwards during the low state decline. Qualitatively, this overall trend is compatible with Esin et al.'s model, but quantitatively, the retreat of the inner disk during the high to low state transition is much slower than predicted. The hard (low state) spectra are not produced solely by an optically thin accretion flow: optically thick material within 20-100 Rg is generally present.
Done Chris
Smith David
Zycki Piotr
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