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Accretion flows having positive specific energy are known to produce outflows and winds which escape to a large distance. According to Two Component Advective Flow (TCAF) model, centrifugal pressure dominated region of the flow just outside…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Santanu Mondal , Sandip K Chakrabarti , Dipak Debnath

Observations of galactic BHCs made by the Compton GRO in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray bands have significantly enhanced our knowledge of the emission properties of these objects. Understanding these observations presents a formidable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 J. E. Grove , J. E. Grindlay , B. A. Harmon , X. -M. Hua , D. Kazanas , M. McConnell

We calculate the temperature and ionization balance in an outflow from an accreting black hole under illumination by hard radiation from the central object. Electron scattering of the Fe K_alpha photons within the highly ionized expanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Martin Laming , Lev Titarchuk

In the propagating oscillatory shock model, the oscillation of the post-shock region, i.e., the Compton cloud, causes the observed low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). The evolution of QPO frequency is explained by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-27 Broja G. Dutta , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We introduce a new method for treating Comptonization in computational fluid dynamics. By construction, this method conserves the number of photons. Whereas the traditional "blackbody Comptonization" approach assumes that the radiation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

The properties of the aperiodic variability in X-ray binaries with black holes are considered. The power spectra of the luminosity variability for a flat accretion disk that is an emission source with a power-law energy spectrum have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-01 A. N. Semena , M. G. Revnivtsev , T. I. Larchenkova , A. A. Lutovinov

We investigate dynamical and radiative properties of arc-shaped gas clouds falling onto a stellar mass black hole based on the three-dimensional general relativistic radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (3D-GRRMHD) simulation data. Assuming that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Kotaro Moriyama , Shin Mineshige , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

We show that black holes accreting at or above the Eddington rate probably produce winds which are optically thick in the continuum, whether in quasars or X-ray binaries. The photospheric radius and outflow speed are proportional to \mo^2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 A. R. King , K. A. Pounds

Active galaxies and quasers are believed to harbour Black Holes at their centers and at the same time produce cosmic radio jets through which immense amount of matter and energy are ejected out of the core of the galaxy. In our work we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tapas K. Das

Studies of the long-term spectral variations have been used to constrain the emission processes of black hole candidates. However, a common scenario which is able to explain the emission from soft to hard X-rays has been proposed only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-26 Manuel Castro , Taís Maiolino , Flavio D'Amico , Jörn Wilms , Katja Pottschmidt , João Braga

Spectral formation in steady state, spherical accretion onto neutron stars and black holes is examined by solving numerically and analytically the equation of radiative transfer. The photons escape diffusively and their energy gains come…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 L. Titarchuk , A. Mastichiadis , N. D. Kylafis

Quasars emission is highly variable, and this variability gives us clues to understand the accretion process onto supermassive black holes. We can expect variability properties to correlate with the main physical properties of the accreting…

Hard X-ray spectra of black hole binaries in the low/hard state are well modeled by thermal Comptonization of soft seed photons by a corona-type region with $kT$\thinspace$\sim 50${\thinspace}keV and optical depth around 1. Previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Castro , F. D'Amico , J. Braga , T. Maiolino , K. Pottschmidt , J. Wilms

We show that outflow rates in jets directly depend on the spectral states of black holes. In particular, in soft states, when the Comptonized electrons are cold, outflow rate is close to zero. In hard states, outflow could be steady, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

On the basis of data from an energy-conserving 3D general relativistic MHD simulation, we predict the statistical character of variability in the coronal luminosity from accreting black holes. When the inner boundary of the corona is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-28 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik

Two component X-ray spectra (soft multicolor black body plus harder power law) are frequently observed from accreting black holes. These components are presumably associated with the different parts of the accretion flow (optically thick…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov , M. Revnivtsev

We present a model for the short timescale spectral variability of accreting black holes. It describes well the time-averaged spectra as well as temporal characteristics such as power-density spectrum, time/phase lags, and coherence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Juri Poutanen , Andrew C. Fabian

We present the first results from two-dimensional simulations of radiatively-efficient accretion of metal-free gas onto intermediate-mass black holes. We fix the shape of the spectral energy distribution of the radiation produced near the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Milos Milosavljevic , Sean M. Couch , Volker Bromm

Most of the X-ray emission from luminous accreting black holes emerges from within 20 gravitational radii. The effective emission radius is several times smaller if the black hole is rapidly spinning. General Relativistic effects can then…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 A. C. Fabian

Most black hole candidate X-ray binaries show Fourier time lags between softer and harder X-rays. The hard photons seem to arrive up to a few ms after the soft for a given Fourier frequency of the perturbation. The energy dependence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Elmar Koerding , Heino Falcke