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We present detailed computations of the vertical structure of an accretion disc illuminated by hard X-ray radiation with the code {\sc titan-noar} suitable for Compton thick media. The energy generated via accretion is dissipated partially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Różańska , A. -M. Dumont , B. Czerny , S. Collin

To explain X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN), non-thermal activity in AGN coronae such as pair cascade models has been extensively discussed in the past literature. Although X-ray and gamma-ray observations in the 1990s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-20 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Dmitry Khangulyan , Akihiro Doi

We study vertical structure of radiation pressure dominated disc with a hot corona. We include all the relevant processes like bound--free opacity and convection. We show that the presence of the corona modifies considerably the density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Różańska , B. Czerny , P. T. Życki , G. Pojmański

The most popular models for the complex phase and time lags in the rapid aperiodic variability of Galactic X-ray binaries are based Comptonization of soft seed photons in a hot corona, where small-scale flares are induced by flares of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boettcher

We study the effects of thermal conduction in a hot, active corona above an accretion disk. We assume that all of the dissipative heating takes place in the corona. We find that the importance of conduction decreases with increases in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrzej Maciolek-Niedzwiecki , Julian H. Krolik , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

The solar atmosphere being magnetic in nature, the understanding of the structure and evolution of the magnetic field in different regions of the solar atmosphere has been an important task over the past decades. This task has been made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Regnier

The outer solar atmosphere, the corona, contains plasma at temperatures of more than a million K, more than 100 times hotter that solar surface. How this gas is heated is a fundamental question tightly interwoven with the structure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-07 F. Chen , H. Peter , S. Bingert , M. C. M. Cheung

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are complex phenomena. At the heart of an AGN is a relativistic accretion disk around a spinning supermassive black hole (SMBH) with an X-ray emitting corona and, sometimes, a relativistic jet. On larger scales,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Christopher S. Reynolds

We construct a simple model for a magnetic reconnection heated corona above a thin accretion disk in AGNs and Galactic black hole candidates(GBHCs). The basic assumptions are that (1) the magnetic reconnection heat is cooled down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. F. Liu , S. Mineshige , K. Shibata

Energetic X-ray radiations emitted from various accretion systems are widely considered to be produced by Comptonization in the hot corona. The corona and its interaction with the disc play an essential role in the evolution of the system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-10 Xiao-lin Yang , Jian-cheng Wang , Chu-yuan Yang

The hot solar corona exists because of the balance between radiative and conductive cooling and some counteracting heating mechanism which remains one of the major puzzles in solar physics. The coronal thermal equilibrium is perturbed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 D. Y. Kolotkov , T. J. Duckenfield , V. M. Nakariakov

The different electron distributions in the hard and soft spectral states (HS and SS) of BH binaries could be caused by kinetic processes and changing because of varying physical conditions in the corona. In presence of a magnetic field in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Melania Del Santo , Julien Malzac , Renaud Belmont , Laurent Bouchet , Giovanni De Cesare

It is clear that the solar corona is being heated and that coronal magnetic fields undergo reconnection all the time. Here we attempt to show that these two facts are in fact related - i.e. coronal reconnection generates heat. This attempt…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Dana W. Longcope , Lucas A. Tarr

X-ray polarimetry has been suggested as a prominent tool for investigating the geometrical and physical properties of the emissions from active galactic nuclei (AGN). The successful launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on…

Many models of gamma-ray bursts suggest a common central engine: a black hole of several solar masses accreting matter from a disk at an accretion rate from 0.01 to 10 M_\sun / s. The inner region of the disk is cooled by neutrino emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yi Xie , Chang-Yin Huang , Wei-Hua Lei

Data obtained in the framework of the INTERBALL-Tail Probe (1995-2000) and RHESSI (from 2002 to the present) projects have revealed variations in the X-ray intensity of the solar corona in the photon energy range of 2-15 keV during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-08 I. K. Mirzoeva , S. G. Chefranov

Large-scale magnetic field is crucial in launching and collimating the jets/outflows. It is found that the magnetic flux can be efficiently transported inward by the fast moving corona above a thin disk. In this work we investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Jia-Wen Li , Xinwu Cao

Observations suggest a power-law relation between the coronal emission in X-rays, $L_{\rm{X}}$, and the total (unsigned) magnetic flux at the stellar surface, $\Phi$. The physics basis for this relation is poorly understood. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 J. Zhuleku , J. Warnecke , H. Peter

The heating of the solar chromosphere and corona to the observed high temperatures, imply the presence of ongoing heating that balances the strong radiative and thermal conduction losses expected in the solar atmosphere. It has been…

Surface magnetism is believed to be the main driver of coronal heating and stellar wind acceleration. Coronae are believed to be formed by plasma confined in closed magnetic coronal loops of the stars, with winds mainly originating in open…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 A. A. Vidotto