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We build a self-consistent model of a warm scattering corona near an accreting black hole in Kerr geometry, in the regime of slow ($\sim 0.01$ Eddington) mass accretion. An iterative Monte Carlo procedure is developed that incorporates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Jonathan Zhang , Christopher Thompson

We investigate the spectral features of accretion flows composed of an outer cool, optically thick disk and inner hot, optically thin, advection dominated accretion flows (ADAF) within the framework of disk and corona with mass evaporation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Erlin Qiao , B. F. Liu

Two families of models are currently considered to describe an accretion flow onto black holes and production of the observed X-ray radiation: (1) a standard cold accretion disk with a hot corona above it and (2) an outer truncated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Sobolewska , A. Siemiginowska , P. T. Zycki

X-ray reverberation in AGN, believed to be the result of the reprocessing of corona photons by the underlying accretion disk, has allowed us to probe the properties of the inner-most regions of the accretion flow and the central black hole.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-05 Corbin Taylor , Christopher S. Reynolds

We investigate the model of the disc/corona accretion flow around the black hole. The model, parameterized by the total (i.e. disk plus corona) accretion rate, $\dot m$, mass of the black hole, $M$ and the viscosity parameter, $\alpha$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Różańska , B. Czerny

We simulate convection near the solar surface, where the continuum optical depth is of order unity. Hence, to determine the radiative heating and cooling in the energy conservation equation, we must solve the radiative transfer equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Stein , Aake Nordlund

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

Most of the luminosity of accreting black hole is emitted in the X-ray band. This radiation is believed to emerge, through inverse Compton process, from a hot (Te ~ 10^8 -10^9 K) optically thin (Thomson optical depth ~ 1) plasma probably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Julien Malzac

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

A semi-classical approach is used to calculate radiation emission in the collision of an electron with an intense focused laser pulse. The results are compared to predictions from the locally constant field and locally monochromatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Christian F. Nielsen , Robert Holtzapple , Ben King

A technique is described for measuring electrical currents in the solar corona. It uses radioastronomical polarization measurements of a spatially-extended radio source viewed through the corona. The observations yield the difference in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Spangler

The inverse Compton (IC) scattering of relativistic electrons is one of the major gamma-ray production mechanisms in different environments. Often the target photons for the IC scattering are dominated by black (or grey) body radiation. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dmitry Khangulyan , Felix A. Aharonian , Stanislav R. Kelner

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

Compton scattering between electrons and photons plays a crucial role in astrophysical plasmas. Many important aspects of this process can be captured by using the so-called Compton scattering kernel. For isotropic media, exact analytic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-03 Abir Sarkar , Jens Chluba , Elizabeth Lee

Active galactic nuclei host an accretion disc with an X-ray producing corona around a supermassive black hole. In bright sources, such as the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 335, reflection of the coronal emission off the accretion disc has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 L. Keek , D. R. Ballantyne

We study the Fourier time-lags due to the Comptonization of disc-emitted photons in a spherical, uniform, and stationary X-ray corona, which located on the rotational axis of the black hole. We use Monk, a general relativistic Monte-Carlo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 W. Zhang , I. E. Papadakis , M. Dovčiak , M. Bursa , V. Karas

The steady-state structure of a disc with a corona is analyzed when the vertical component of the gravitational force due to the self-gravity of the disc is considered. For the energy exchange between the disc and the corona, we assume a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fazeleh Khajenabi , Peter Duffy

The X-ray spectra of many active galactic nuclei (AGN) show a soft X-ray excess below 1-2 keV on top of the extrapolated high- energy power law. The origin of this component is uncertain. It could be a signature of relativistically blurred,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 P. O. Petrucci , F. Ursini , A. De Rosa , S. Bianchi , M. Cappi , G. Matt , M. Dadina , J. Malzac

Electromagnetic wave scattering off density inhomogeneities in the solar corona is an important process which determines both the apparent source size and the time profile of radio bursts observed at 1 AU. Here we model the scattering…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-05 N. H. Bian , A. G. Emslie , E. P. Kontar

Multi-group method is an accepted technique for approximately solving the equation of radiative transfer. In this paper, group averaged transfer scattering cross sections, required for solving the equation of radiative transfer in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 J. Fiedler