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Spectral Index as a Function of Mass Accretion Rate in Black Hole Sources: Monte Carlo Simulations and an Analytical Description

  • Authors: Philippe Laurent and Lev Titarchuk

Laurent & Titarchuk 2011 The Astrophysical Journal 727 34.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Example of simulated bulk+thermal Comptonization spectrum (red histogram) and the XSPEC model bmc1 * highcut1 + bmc2 * highcut2. The spectrum is shown in units of keV (keV cm −2s −1keV −1) with absolute values that are multiplied by an arbitrary constant. The hard and soft components are shown by dash green and dash red curves, respectively. The resulting spectrum is shown by a solid green curve. In the simulations, the mass accretion rate in Eddington units is , C 1/ C 0 = 5, q = 0.01, and the flow electron temperature is kT e = 2.4 keV.

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