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磁场和不均匀性对吸积盘光谱和偏振的影响

The Effects of Magnetic Fields and Inhomogeneities on Accretion Disk Spectra and Polarization

S. W. Davis, O. M. Blaes, S. Hirose, J. H. Krolik

摘要:

本文给出了黑洞吸积盘局部垂直结构的辐射磁流体动力学模拟快照中出现的极化谱的一维和三维辐射转移计算结果。模拟涵盖了广泛的物理制度相关的高/软态的黑洞X射线双星。我们约束的不确定性,由于存在磁支持的磁盘表面层和强密度不均匀性的理论光谱颜色校正因子。对于辐射主导的模拟,磁性支持将颜色校正因子增加约10%,但这在很大程度上被由于不均匀性而导致的10%软化所补偿。我们还计算了非均匀性和法拉第旋转对所产生的偏振的影响。模拟中的磁场刚好强到足以在辐射场的谱峰附近产生显著的法拉第去极化。因此,X射线偏振测量可能是一个有价值的诊断吸积盘磁场,能够直接测试模拟的磁旋转湍流。

英文摘要:

We present the results of one and three-dimensional radiative transfer calculations of polarized spectra emerging from snapshots of radiation magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the local vertical structure of black hole accretion disks. The simulations cover a wide range of physical regimes relevant for the high/soft state of black hole X-ray binaries. We constrain the uncertainties in theoretical spectral color correction factors due to the presence of magnetic support of the disk surface layers and strong density inhomogeneities. For the radiation dominated simulation, magnetic support increases the color correction factor by about ten percent, but this is largely compensated by a ten percent softening due to inhomogeneities. We also compute the effects of inhomogeneities and Faraday rotation on the resulting polarization. Magnetic fields in the simulations are just strong enough to produce significant Faraday depolarization near the spectral peak of the radiation field. X-ray polarimetry may therefore be a valuable diagnostic of accretion disk magnetic fields, being able to directly test simulations of magnetorotational turbulence.

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