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宽铁K-α发射线作为黑洞自旋的诊断

Broad iron K-alpha emission lines as a diagnostic of black hole spin

Christopher S. Reynolds, Andrew C. Fabian

摘要:

我们解决的能力,广泛的铁发射线从黑洞吸积盘诊断自旋的黑洞。利用高分辨率的三维MHD方法模拟了赝牛顿势场中几何薄的吸积盘,结果表明吸积流的中面密度和垂直柱密度在靠近最内层稳定圆轨道(ISCO)的一个很窄的半径范围内急剧下降.我们认为,这种下降的密度是伴随着急剧增加的电离参数的X射线光球,和由此产生的印记的ISCO的X射线反射光谱可以用来约束自旋。基于这种模拟,我们构造了一个Kerr黑洞ISCO内吸积流的简化模型,并利用该模型估计了由于铁谱线辐射向ISCO内部区域轻微泄漏而导致的黑洞自旋的系统误差.我们发现,这些系统误差对于缓慢旋转的黑洞可能是显著的,但当考虑更快速旋转的黑洞时,这些系统误差会变得明显更小。

英文摘要:

We address the ability of broad iron emission lines from black hole accretion disks to diagnose the spin of the black hole. Using a high-resolution 3-dimensional MHD simulation of a geometrically-thin accretion disk in a Pseudo-Newtonian potential, we show that both the midplane density and the vertical column density of the accretion flow drop dramatically over a narrow range of radii close to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO). We argue that this drop of density is accompanied by a sharp increase in the ionization parameter of the X-ray photosphere, and that the resulting imprint of the ISCO on the X-ray reflection spectrum can be used to constrain spin. Motivated by this simulation, we construct a simplified toy-model of the accretion flow within the ISCO of a Kerr black hole, and use this model to estimate the systematic error on inferred black hole spin that may result from slight bleeding of the iron line emission to the region inside of the ISCO. We find that these systematic errors can be significant for slowly spinning black holes but become appreciably smaller as one considers more rapidly rotating black holes.

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