X-Ray heated accretion discs around stellar mass black holes

dc.contributor.authorHubeny, Ivan
dc.contributor.authorWickramasinghe, Dayal
dc.coverage.spatialLa oaz
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:09:56Z
dc.date.available2015-12-13T23:09:56Z
dc.date.createdNovember 17 2003
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T08:21:25Z
dc.description.abstractWe investigate the effects of irradiation on the vertical structure of accretion discs around black holes and its impact on the emergent energy distribution. Models are presented for a 10 Solar mass black hole in a low mass X-ray binary assuming a black body spectrum for the incident radiation. We show that for a disc annulus at a given radius, the spectra become increasingly distorted as the incident flux increases relative to the viscously generated heating flux in the disc. Significant effects are apparent for rings even at distances of ̃ 10; 000 Schwarzschild radii from the black hole for realistic dilution factors.
dc.identifier.isbn9703211585
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/87231
dc.publisherInstituto de Astronomia
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInternational Astronomical Union Symposium 194
dc.sourceRevista Mexicana de Astronomia y astrofisica
dc.source.urihttp://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/rmaa.html
dc.titleX-Ray heated accretion discs around stellar mass black holes
dc.typeConference paper
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage201
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage200
local.contributor.affiliationHubeny, Ivan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
local.contributor.affiliationWickramasinghe, Dayal, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu7600909@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidWickramasinghe, Dayal, u7600909
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor020110 - Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub16435
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-70649094111
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByMigrated
local.type.statusPublished Version

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