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

DOI10.1142/S0218271810016555MaRDI QIDQ3583286zbMATHFDO

Authors Himadri Ghosh, Sudip Garain, Sandip K. Chakrabarti, Philippe Laurent

Publication date 26 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4024

zbMATH Keywords

shock wavesblack hole physicsMonte Carlo simulationsaccretion diskradiative processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Statistical astronomy (85A35) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08)

Abstract: A black hole accretion may have both the Keplerian and the sub-Keplerian component. In the so-called Chakrabarti-Titarchuk scenario, the Keplerian component supplies low energy (soft) photons while the sub-Keplerian component supplies hot electrons which exchange their energy with the soft photons through Comptonization or inverse Comptonization processes. In the sub-Keplerian component, a shock is generally produced due to the centrifugal force. The postshock region is known as the CENtrifugal pressure-supported BOundary Layer (CENBOL). In this paper, we compute the effects of the thermal and the bulk motion Comptonization on the soft photons emitted from a Keplerian disk by the CENBOL, the preshock sub-Keplerian disk and the outflowing jet. We study the emerging spectrum when the converging inflow and the diverging outflow (generated from the CENBOL) are simultaneously present. From the strength of the shock, we calculate the percentage of matter being carried away by the outflow and determine how the emerging spectrum depends on the outflow rate. The preshock sub-Keplerian flow is also found to Comptonize the soft photons significantly. The interplay between the up-scattering and down-scattering effects determines the effective shape of the emerging spectrum. By simulating several cases with various inflow parameters, we conclude that whether the preshock flow, or the postshock CENBOL or the emerging jet is dominant in shaping the emerging spectrum depends strongly on the geometry of the flow and the strength of the shock in the sub-Keplerian flow.

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