A model for the high-energy emission of Cyg X-1

Details A model for the high-energy emission of Cyg X-1 A model for the high-energy emission of Cyg X-1

1997-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709179v1

AIP Conf.Proc.410:863-867,1997

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages including 2 figures, latex, aipproc.sty, aipproc.cls, epsfig.sty. To be published in Proc. 4th Compton Symp., 1997 (27

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.53990

We construct a model of Cyg X-1 which describes self-consistently its emission from soft X-rays to MeV gamma rays. Instead of a compact pair-dominated gamma-ray emitting region, we consider a hot optically thin and spatially extended proton-dominated cloud surrounding the whole accretion disc. The gamma-ray emission is due to the bremsstrahlung, Comptonization, and positron annihilation, while the corona-disc model is retained for the X-ray emission. We show that the Cyg X-1 spectrum accumulated by OSSE, BATSE, and COMPTEL in 1991--95, as well as the HEAO-3 gamma1 and gamma2 spectra can be well fitted by our model. The derived parameters are in qualitative agreement with the picture in which the spectral changes are governed by the mass flow rate in the accretion disc. In this context, the hot outer corona could be treated as the advection-dominated flow co-existing with a standard thin accretion disc.

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