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Theory of Accretion Disk Coronae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

T. R. Kallman
T. R. Kallman*
Affiliation:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MDUSA

Abstract

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Accretion disk coronae are likely to be the dominant site for X-ray absorption and reprocessed emission in low mass X-ray binaries, and may be present in other classes of compact X-ray sources such as active galactic nuclei and cataclysmic variables. In spite of this fact, and in spite of the observational evidence for their existence, there remain many uncertainties about the structure of accretion disk coronae. This paper will discuss the coronal structure and dynamics, their X-ray spectral signatures including coupling to the variability behavior of compact X-ray sources, and the major unsolved theoretical issues surrounding them.

Type
5. Compact Binaries
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 115: High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Cosmic Plasmas , 1990 , pp. 187 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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