A disk-corona model for low/hard state of black hole X-ray binaries
Abstract
A disk-corona model for fitting low/hard (LH) state of associated steady jet of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) is proposed based on the large-scale magnetic field configuration of the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and Blandford-Payne (BP) processes,where the magnetic field configuration for the BP process is determined by the requirement of energy conversion from Poynting energy flux into kinetic energy flux in the jet. It is found that corona current is crucial to guarantee the consistency of the jet launching from accretion disk. The relative importance of the BZ to BP processes in powering jets from black hole accretion disk is discussed, and the LH state of several BHXBs is fitted based on our model.In addition, we suggest that magnetic field configuration could be regarded as the second parameter for governing the state transition of BHXBs.
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@article{arxiv.1305.4369,
title = {A disk-corona model for low/hard state of black hole X-ray binaries},
author = {Jiu-Zhou Wang and Ding-Xiong Wang and Chang-Yin Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4369},
year = {2015}
}
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20 pages, 9 figures