Monte Carlo simulations of the thermal comptonization process in a two-component accretion flow around a black hole

DOI10.1142/S0218271809015242MaRDI QIDQ3401007zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Himadri Ghosh, Sandip K. Chakrabarti, Philippe Laurent

Publication date 28 January 2010

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2252

zbMATH Keywords

accretion diskblack hole physicsMonte Carlo simulationsradiative processesshock waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-04) Black holes (83C57) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Abstract: We compute the effects of thermal Comptonization of soft photons emitted from a Kep- lerian disk around a black hole by the post-shock region of a sub-Keplerian flow, known as the CENtrifugal pressure dominated BOundary Layer (CENBOL). We show that the spectral state transitions of black hole candidates could be explained either by varying the outer boundary of the CENBOL, which also happens to be the inner edge of the Keplerian disk, or by changing the central density of the CENBOL which is governed by the rate of the sub-Keplerian flow. We confirm the conclusions of the previous the- oretical studies that the interplay between the intensity of the soft photons emitted by the Keplerian flow and the optical depth and electron temperature of the Comptonizing cloud is responsible for the state transitions in a black hole.

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