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X-Ray Heated Accretion Discs Around Stellar Mass Black Holes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2018

Ivan Hubeny  and
Dayal T. Wickramasinghe
Ivan Hubeny
Affiliation:
NOAO, Tucson, ArizonaUSA
Dayal T. Wickramasinghe
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, Canberra, email: dayal@maths.anu.edu.au

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We investigate the effects of irradiation on the vertical structure of accretion discs around black holes and its impact on the emergent energy distribution. Models are presented for a 10 Solar mass black hole in a low mass X-ray binary assuming a black body spectrum for the incident radiation. We show that for a disc annulus at a given radius, the spectra become increasingly distorted as the incident flux increases relative to the viscously generated heating flux in the disc. Significant effects are apparent for rings even at distances of ~ 10,000 Schwarzschild radii from the black hole for realistic dilution factors.

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The Contributed Papers
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 194: Compact binaries in the galaxy and beyond , 2004 , pp. 200 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © Instituto de astronomia/revista mexicana de astronomίa y astrofίsica 2004

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