High energy power-law tail in x-ray binaries and bulk comptonization due to an outflow from a disk

Kumar, N (2018) High energy power-law tail in x-ray binaries and bulk comptonization due to an outflow from a disk. In: Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 39 (1).

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Abstract

We study the high energy power-law tail emission of X-ray binaries (XRBs) by a bulk Comptonization process which is usually observed in the very high soft (VHS) state of black hole (BH) XRBs and the high soft (HS) state of the neutron star (NS) and BH XRBs. Earlier, to generate the power-law tail in bulk Comptonization framework, a free-fall converging flow into BH or NS had been considered as a bulk region. In this work, for a bulk region we consider mainly an outflow geometry from the accretion disk which is bounded by a torus surrounding the compact object. We have two choices for an outflow geometry: (i) collimated flow and (ii) conical flow of opening angle θb and the axis is perpendicular to the disk. We also consider an azimuthal velocity of the torus fluids as a bulk motion where the fluids are rotating around the compact object (a torus flow). We find that the power-law tail can be generated in a torus flow having large optical depth and bulk speed (>0.75c), and in conical flow with θb > � 30� for a low value of Comptonizing medium temperature. Particularly, in conical flow the low opening angle is more favourable to generate the power-law tail in both the HS state and the VHS state. We notice that when the outflow is collimated, then the emergent spectrum does not have power-law component for a low Comptonizing medium temperature. © Indian Academy of Sciences.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
Publisher:	INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
Additional Information:	The copyright of this article belongs to INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	30 Jun 2020 07:14
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2020 07:14
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/64926

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