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A disc-corona model for a rotating black hole

Authors :
Ren-Yi Ma
Xiao-Long Gong
Li-Xin Li
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 420:1415-1422
Publication Year :
2012
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012.

Abstract

We propose a disc-corona model in which a geometrically thin, optically thick disc surrounds a Kerr black hole, and magnetic fields exert a time-steady torque on the inner edge of the accretion disc. The analytical expression of the total gravitational power is derived from the thin-disc dynamics equations by using this new boundary condition. It is shown that the magnetic torque can considerably enhance the amount of energy released in the disc-corona system. Furthermore, the global solutions of this disc-corona system are obtained numerically. We find that the fraction of the power dissipated into the corona in the total for such disc-corona system increases with the increasing dimensionless black hole spin parameter $a_\ast $, but is insensitive on the $\Delta \varepsilon $ which is the additional radiative efficiency parameter relevant to magnetic torque, for $\Delta\varepsilon > 1$. In addition, the emerged spectra from this disc-corona system are simulated by using Monte-Carlo method, and the effect of the different parameters on the output spectra is discussed.

Details

ISSN :
00358711
Volume :
420
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........8431172cfd11b74e5a8eae21e92263d2
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20124.x