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We present the properties of accretion disk corona (ADC) models, where the radiation field, the temperature, and the total opacity of the corona are determined self-consistently. We use a non-linear Monte Carlo code to perform the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James B. Dove , Jorn Wilms , Mitchell C. Begelman

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

Accretion discs in AGN may be associated with coronal gas, as suggested by their X-ray emission. Stellar coronal emission includes radio emission, and AGN corona may also be a significant source for radio emission in radio quiet (RQ) AGN.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-08 Igor Raginski , Ari Laor

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

Using a non-linear Monte-Carlo code we investigate the radiative response of an accretion disk corona system to static homogeneous flares. We model a flare by a rapid (comparable to the light crossing time) energy dissipation in the corona…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Julien Malzac , Elisabeth Jourdain

A magnetically-structured accretion disk corona, generated by buoyancy instability in the disk, can account for observations of flare--like events in Active Galactic Nuclei. We examine how Petschek magnetic reconnection, associated with MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Di Matteo

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

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

This study investigates the thermal stability of thin accretion disks in high-energy astrophysical systems, incorporating the effects of magnetic fields, winds, and coronae. We analyze how these factors influence disk stability, focusing on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Arezoo Tajmohamadi , Shahram Abbassi

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

We calculate the structure of a standard accretion disk with corona surrounding a massive Kerr black hole in general relativistic frame, in which the corona is assumed to be heated by the reconnection of the strongly buoyant magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Bei You , Xinwu Cao , Ye-Fei Yuan

Straight-forward models of X-ray reflection in the inner region of accretion discs predict that primary X-ray flux and the flux reflected off the surface of the disc should vary together, albeit a short light travel time delay. Most of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Nayakshin

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

We model an accretion disk atmosphere and corona photoionized by a central X-ray continuum source. We calculate the opacity and radiation transfer for an array of disk radii, to obtain the two-dimensional structure of the disk and its X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. A. Jimenez-Garate , J. C. Raymond , D. A. Liedahl

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

X-ray and UV line emission in X-ray binaries can be accounted for by a hot corona. Such a corona forms through irradiation of the outer disk by radiation produced in the inner accretion flow. The same irradiation can produce a strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Nick Higginbottom , Daniel Proga

The corona is a key component of most luminous accreting black holes, carrying 5 - 30 % of the power and in non-jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), creating all the X-ray emission above $\simeq 1-2$ keV. Its emission illuminates the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-14 Nikita Kamraj , Andrew Fabian , Anne Lohfink , Mislav Baloković , Claudio Ricci , Kristin Madsen

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 construct a disk-corona model which accounts for the optical-to-X-ray spectral properties of Seyfert nuclei and QSOs. We study emission spectrum emerging from a vertical disk-corona structure composed of two-temperature plasma by solving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Toshihiro Kawaguchi , Toshiya Shimura , Shin Mineshige

Relativistically blurred reflection from the accretion disc provides a powerful probe of the extreme environments close to supermassive black holes; the inner regions of the accretion flow and the corona that produces the intense X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-05 D. R. Wilkins