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Semiconductor spin lasers are distinguished from their conventional counterparts by the presence of spin-polarized carriers. The transfer of angular momentum of the spin-polarized carriers to photons provides important opportunities for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Gaofeng Xu , David Cao , Velimir Labinac , Igor Žutić

Large energy-dependent X-ray polarization degree is detected by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer ({IXPE}) in the high-soft emission state of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630--47. The highly significant detection (at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-21 Ajay Ratheesh , Michal Dovčiak , Henric Krawczynski , Jakub Podgorný , Lorenzo Marra , Alexandra Veledina , Valery Suleimanov , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , James Steiner , Jiri Svoboda , Andrea Marinucci , Stefano Bianchi , Michela Negro , Giorgio Matt , Francesco Tombesi , Juri Poutanen , Adam Ingram , Roberto Taverna , Andrew West , Vladimir Karas , Francesco Ursini , Paolo Soffitta , Fiamma Capitanio , Domenico Viscolo , Alberto Manfreda , Fabio Muleri , Maxime Parra , Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Sohee Chun , Niccolò Cibrario , Niccolò Di Lalla , Sergio Fabiani , Kun Hu , Philip Kaaret , Vladislav Loktev , Romana Mikušincová , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Nicola Omodei , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Simonetta Puccetti , John Rankin , Silvia Zane , Sixuan Zhang , Iván Agudo , Lucio Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Steven Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana Jorstad , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery Kolodziejczak , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Frédéric Marin , Alan Marscher , Herman Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George Pavlov , Abel Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Brian Ramsey , Oliver Roberts , Roger Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Gloria Spandre , Douglas Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn Tennant , Nicholas Thomas , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie

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

X-ray flux from the inner hot region around central compact object in a binary system illuminates the upper surface of an accretion disc and it behaves like a corona. This region can be photoionised by the illuminating radiation, thus can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-30 Santanu Mondal , Tek P. Adhikari , Chandra B. Singh

This paper is the third in a series, studying the optical properties of a sample of mid-IR Warm Seyfert galaxies and of a control sample of mid-IR Cold galaxies. The present paper is devoted to surface photometry. We analyse the light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eleni T. Chatzichristou

It is commonly believed that accretion discs are truncated and their inner regions are described by advection dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) in the hard spectral state of black hole X-ray binaries. However, the increasing occurrence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Yilong Wang , Bifang Liu , Erlin Qiao , Huaqing Cheng

Equipartition magnetic fields can dramatically affect the polarization of radiation emerging from accretion disk atmospheres in active galactic nuclei. We extend our previous work on this subject by exploring the interaction between Faraday…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Agol , Omer Blaes , Cristian Ionescu-Zanetti

We discuss the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes, taking into account the non-uniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical conductivity of the outer layers of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-07 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , A. S. Klepnev , R. V. E. Lovelace

The fluorescent iron Ka line is a powerful observational probe of the inner regions of black holes accretion disks. Previous studies have assumed that only material outside the radius of marginal stability can contribute to the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Christopher S. Reynolds , Mitchell C. Begelman

We present Fe Kalpha line profiles from and images of relativistic discs with finite thickness around a rotating black hole using a novel code. The line is thought to be produced by iron fluorescence of a relatively cold X-ray illuminated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Sheng-Miao Wu , Ting-Gui Wang

The perturbations such as rotation and PC--current have been believed to be greatly affecting the pulsar radio emission and polarization. The two effects have not been considered simultaneously in the literature, however, each one of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

The broad iron K$\alpha$ emission line, commonly seen in the X-ray spectrum of Seyfert nuclei, is thought to originate when the inner accretion disk is illuminated by an active disk-corona. We show that relative motion between the disk and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 C. S. Reynolds , A. C. Fabian

We study the impact of gas motions on the polarization of bright X-ray emission lines from the hot intercluster medium (ICM). The polarization naturally arises from resonant scattering of emission lines owing to a quadrupole component in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 I. V. Zhuravleva , E. M. Churazov , S. Yu. Sazonov , R. A. Sunyaev , W. Forman , K. Dolag

In this work, we derive two formulas encoding the polarization direction and luminosity of synchrotron radiations from the moving electrons in curved spacetime under the geometric optics approximation. As an application, we further study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Zezhou Hu , Yehui Hou , Haopeng Yan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We analysed an XMM-Newton plus a simultaneous Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation and a separate Suzaku observation of the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34. We fitted the X-ray spectra with the self-consistent reflection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Ming Lyu , Mariano Mendez , Jian-Fu Zhang , Fu-Yuan Xiang

Based on a new estimation of their thickness, the global properties of relativistic slim accretion disks are investigated in this work. The resulting emergent spectra are calculated using the relativistic ray-tracing method, in which we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Guang-Xing Li , Ye-Fei Yuan , Xinwu Cao

We investigate the polarization of Compton scattered X-rays from relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei using Monte Carlo simulations. We consider three scenarios: scattering of photons from an accretion disk, scattering of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Aimee McNamara , Zdenka Kuncic , Kinwah Wu

The problem of steady-state accretion to nonrotating black holes is examined. Advection is included and generalized formulas for the radiation pressure in both the optically thick and thin cases are used. Special attention is devoted to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. S. Klepnev , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We examine the effect of thermal conduction on the observational properties of a super critical hot magnetized flow. We obtained self-similar solution of a magnetized disc when the thermal conduction plays an important role. Follow of our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Ghasemnezhad , M. Khajavi , S. Abbassi

We model the spectral energy distribution of the type 1 Seyfert galaxies, fitting data from simultaneous optical, UV, and X-ray monitoring observations. We assume a geometry consisting of a hot central Comptonizing region surrounded by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Chiang , Omer Blaes
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