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The Effects of Complex Accretion Disk Geometry on Broadened Iron Ka Lines

  • Authors: William Surgent, Daniel R. Wilkins

William Surgent and Daniel R. Wilkins 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1004 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Schematic of the constant-aspect-ratio disk geometries with a lamppost corona emitting constant emissivity over a boundary (circle in each panel). The green disk has ﹩\frac{h}{\rho }=1﹩, the blue disk has ﹩\frac{h}{\rho }=0.5﹩, and the orange disk has ﹩\frac{h}{\rho }=0.1﹩. In the leftmost panel, with hc = 5 rg, the region of constant emissivity makes first contact with the inner radii of each constant-aspect-ratio disk. In the second panel from the left, hc = 10 rg, we see that this region of constant emissivity intersects the disk at larger radii for ﹩\frac{h}{\rho }=0.1﹩. In the third panel from the left, an equivalent region of constant emissivity still reaches the inner radii of the disks with ﹩\frac{h}{\rho }=0.1﹩ and ﹩\frac{h}{\rho }=0.5﹩. In the rightmost panel, at hc = 20 rg, this region instead intersects the disks with ﹩\frac{h}{\rho }=0.5﹩ at larger radii. The lack of illumination of the inner accretion disk in each case leads to a corresponding decrease in the number of the most highly redshifted photons in the resulting line profiles.

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