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吸积盘中的Angular Momentum输运及其对黑洞双星自旋估计的意义

Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks and its Implications for Spin Estimates in Black Hole Binaries

Chris Done, Shane W. Davis

摘要:

在黑洞双星的盘主导态中,吸积流具有峰值温度和亮度,它们一起变化,表明一个近似恒定的发射面积。当黑洞的质量已知时,将其与最后稳定轨道联系起来,就可以提供为数不多的估算自旋的方法之一。然而,推导出这个半径需要知道圆盘光谱是如何通过圆盘的垂直结构被辐射转移改变的,以及对这种辐射传播的特殊和广义相对论效应。在这里,我们调查在何种程度上垂直结构的差异改变衍生磁盘光谱计算这些不同的应力处方的范围。我们发现,在给定的质量吸积率下,当吸积率L/LEdd <~ 0.1时,谱几乎是相同的。只要应力在有效光球层上方耗散的引力能量不超过约10%,即使在所考虑的最高光度(L/L_Edd ~ 0.6)下,光谱也是非常相似的。只有α>~ 0.1的经典α盘超过了这一点,但这些模型给出的光谱变化与现有数据不兼容。因此,我们的结论是,磁盘频谱模型可以放置有趣的角动量输运的限制,但仍然提供了一个强大的估计的自旋的黑洞。

英文摘要:

The accretion flow in the disk dominated state of black hole binaries has peak temperature and luminosity which vary together in such a way as to indicate an approximately constant emitting area. The association of this with the last stable orbit gives one of the few ways to estimate spin when the mass of the black hole is known. However, deriving this radius requires knowledge of how the disk spectrum is modified by radiative transfer through the vertical structure of the disk, as well as special and general relativistic effects on the propagation of this radiation. Here we investigate the extent to which differences in vertical structure change the derived disk spectra by calculating these for a range of different stress prescriptions. We find that at a given mass accretion rate the spectra are almost identical for accretion rates of L/L_Edd <~ 0.1. The spectra are remarkably similar even up to the highest luminosities considered (L/L_Edd ~ 0.6) as long as the stresses do not dissipate more than about 10 per cent of the gravitational energy above the effective photosphere. This is exceeded only by classic alpha disks with alpha >~ 0.1, but these models give spectral variation which is incompatible with existing data. Therefore, we conclude that disk spectral modelling can place interesting constraints on angular momentum transport, but still provide a robust estimate of the spin of the black hole.

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