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The vertical structure of optically thick accretion disks is investigated in the two-zone approximation. The disk is divided into an underlying disk and a corona, where the latter is defined as the upper surface layers for which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ranjeev Misra , R. E. Taam

The disk-corona evaporation model naturally interprets many observational phenomena in black hole X-ray binaries, such as the truncation of an accretion disk and the spectral state transitions. On the other hand, magnetic field is known to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lei Qian , B. F. Liu , Xue-Bing Wu

Non-thermal X-ray emission in compact accretion engines can be interpreted to result from magnetic dissipation in an optically thin magnetized corona above an optically thick accretion disk. If coronal magnetic field originates in the disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Eric G. Blackman , Martin E. Pessah

Accretion disks and coronae around massive black holes have been studied extensively, and they are known to be coupled. Over a period of 30 years, however, the X-ray (coronal) flux of Mrk 817 increased by a factor of 40 while its UV (disk)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 J. M. Miller , Z. Zoghbi , M. T. Reynolds , J. Raymond , D. Barret , E. Behar , W. N. Brandt , L. Brenneman , P. Draghis , E. Kammoun , M. J. Koss , A. Lohfink , D. K. Stern

Results are reported for analysis of the extensive Rosat observation of the dipping low mass X-ray binary XB 1916-053. Dipping is 100% deep showing that the emission regions are completely covered by the absorber. A good fit to the non-dip…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Morley , M. J. Church , A. P. Smale , M. Balucinska-Church

We study in detail the properties of the accreting corona model for active galactic nuclei and galactic black holes. In this model the fraction of the energy liberated in the corona at a given radius is calculated from the global parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny

X-ray observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT 2019avd show drastic variabilities in flux and spectral shape over hundreds of days, providing clues on the accretion disc-corona evolution. We utilize a disc-corona model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-27 Haichao Xu , Xinwu Cao , Yanan Wang , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

We present a relativistic disk-corona model for a steady state advective accretion disk to explain the UV to X-ray spectral index $\alpha_{\text{OX}}$ evolution of \textbf{four} tidal disruption event (TDE) sources XMMSL2J1446, XMMSL1J1404,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 T. Mageshwaran , Sudip Bhattacharyya

It is widely accepted that X-ray emission in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) originates from hot corona. To prevent the corona from over-cooling by strong X-ray emission, steady heating to the corona is essential, for which the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-27 Jie-Ying Liu , Jirong Mao , B. F. Liu

The geometry of the accretion flow around stellar-mass black holes can change on timescales of days to months. When a black hole emerges from quiescence (that is, it "turns on" after accreting material from its companion) it has a very hard…

Understanding the coronal geometry in different states of black hole X-ray binaries is important for more accurate modeling of the system. However, it is difficult to distinguish different geometries by fitting the observed Comptonization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Ningyue Fan , Cosimo Bambi , James F. Steiner , Wenda Zhang

In the past years, several observations of AGN and X-ray binaries have suggested the existence of a warm T around 0.5-1 keV and optically thick, \tau ~ 10-20, corona covering the inner parts of the accretion disk. These properties are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-05 A. Rozanska , J. Malzac , R. Belmont , B. Czerny , P. -O. Petrucci

We present the results of a new global radiation transport code coupled to a general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of an accreting, non-rotating black hole. For the first time, we are able to explain from first principles in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik , Scott C. Noble

Understanding the properties of the hot corona is very important for studying the accretion disks in black hole X-ray binary systems. Using the Monte-Carlo technique to simulate the inverse Compton scattering process between disk photons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yangsen Yao , Shuang Nan Zhang , Xiaoling Zhang

The current status of understanding of the X-ray emission from Seyfert galaxies involves Comptonization of soft photons by hot subrelativistic electrons. After briefly reviewing the early theoretical basis for the presence of hot optically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laura Maraschi , Francesco Haardt

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

We present that the broad feature usually observed in X-ray spectra can be explained by a ray-traced emission from a two-slab system containing a dissipative, warm corona on top of an accretion disk in an AGN. Such an accretion flow is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 P. P. Biswas , A. Różańska , F. H. Vincent , D. Lančová , P. T. Zycki

The hard X-ray emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to originate from the hot coronae above the cold accretion discs. The hard X-ray spectral index is found to be correlated with the Eddington ratio, and the hard X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xinwu Cao

This paper is devoted to self-consistent modeling of the magnetically supported accretion disk with optically thick warm corona based on first principles. In our model, we consider the gas heating by magneto-rotational instability (MRI)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Dominik Gronkiewicz , Agata Różańska

Observations show that there is a positive correlation between Eddington ratio $\lambda$ and hard X-ray index $\Gamma$ for $\lambda \gtrsim 0.01$, and there is an anti-correlation between $\lambda$ and $\Gamma$ for $\lambda \lesssim 0.01$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 ErLin Qiao , B. F. Liu