DAO: A New and Public Non-Relativistic Reflection Model
Abstract
We present a new non-relativistic reflection model, DAO, designed to calculate reflection spectra in the rest frame of accretion disks in X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei. The model couples the XSTAR code, which treats atomic processes, with the Feautrier method for solving the radiative transfer equation. A key feature of DAO is the incorporation of a high-temperature corrected cross section and an exact redistribution function to accurately treat Compton scattering. Furthermore, the model accommodates arbitrary illuminating spectra, enabling applications across diverse physical conditions. We investigate the spectral dependence on key physical parameters and benchmark the results against the widely used reflionx and xillver codes.
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@article{arxiv.2512.12728,
title = {DAO: A New and Public Non-Relativistic Reflection Model},
author = {Yimin Huang and Honghui Liu and Cosimo Bambi and Adam Ingram and Jiachen Jiang and Andrew Young and Zuobin Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12728},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
25 pages, 19 figures. Code available at https://github.com/ABHModels/DAO