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Comptonized X-Ray Emission from the Accretion Disk Around a Massive Black Hole
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
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We report the Monte Carlo simulation of the unsaturated Comptonization to probe the phyiscal state of the accreting plasma near a compact object. We calculate the emission spectrum and the Compton cooling rate of the plane-parallel hot plasma layer with the finite optical depth to the Thomson scattering, τ. The distribution of electrons is assumed to be a relativistic Maxwellian with the temperature Te. The energy and angular distribution of the soft photons impinging on the plasma layer is taken to be Planckian with the temperature Tph. We use the Klein-Nishina formula for the scattering between a photon and an electron.
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- Session 5: Mass-Accretion onto Compact Stars and Resultant Explosive Phenomena and Nucleosynthesis
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- Copyright © Reidel 1981
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