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吸积黑洞谱态的起源

On the origin of spectral states in accreting black holes

Juri Poutanen, Indrek Vurm

摘要:

讨论了导致黑洞X射线双星在不同状态下发生康普顿化的电子分布差异的原因。我们解决了耦合动力学方程的光子和电子没有近似的相关横截面占康普顿散射,同步辐射,库仑碰撞。在没有外部软光子的情况下,即使对于纯非热电子注入,电子也可以通过同步自吸收和库仑散射有效地热化。由此产生的准热同步辐射自康普顿光谱具有非常稳定的斜率和电子温度类似的硬态的BHB。在X射线中观察到的硬光谱斜率、100 keV处的截止和MeV尾部一起需要排除磁耗散机制的低磁场。吸积盘向黑洞的运动导致较大的康普顿冷却和较低的平衡电子温度。我们的自洽模拟表明,在这种情况下,电子和光子的分布达到幂律主导的形状类似于在软态中观察到的。天鹅座X-1软态的电子分布可能需要一个强磁场,这与磁主导的日冕是一致的。

英文摘要:

The origin of dramatically different electron distributions responsible for Comptonization in black hole X-ray binaries (BHBs) in their various states is discussed. We solve the coupled kinetic equations for photons and electrons without approximations on the relevant cross-sections accounting for Compton scattering, synchrotron radiation, and Coulomb collisions. In the absence of external soft photons, the electrons are efficiently thermalized by synchrotron self-absorption and Coulomb scattering even for pure nonthermal electron injection. The resulting quasi-thermal synchrotron self-Compton spectra have very stable slopes and electron temperatures similar to the hard states of BHBs. The hard spectral slopes observed in the X-rays, the cutoff at 100 keV, and the MeV tail together require low magnetic fields ruling out the magnetic dissipation mechanism. The motion of the accretion disk toward the black hole results in larger Compton cooling and lower equilibrium electron temperature. Our self-consistent simulations show that in this case both electron and photon distributions attain a power-law-dominated shape similar to what is observed in the soft state. The electron distribution in the Cyg X-1 soft state might require a strong magnetic field, being consistent with the magnetically dominated corona.

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