Minimum X-ray source size of the on-axis corona in AGN

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asna.201612327" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asna.201612327</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asna.201612327" target="_blank" >10.1002/asna.201612327</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Minimum X-ray source size of the on-axis corona in AGN

Original language description

The "lamppost" model is often used to describe the X-ray source geometry in AGN, where an infinitesimal point source is located on the black hole spin axis. This is especially invoked for narrow line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies, where an extremely broad iron line seen in episodes of low X-ray flux can both be explained by extremely strong relativistic effects as the source approaches the black hole horizon. The most extreme spectrum seen from the NLS1 1H0707-495 requires that the source is less than 1GM/c(2) above the event horizon in this geometry. However, the source must also be large enough to intercept sufficient seed photons from the disc to make the hard X-ray Compton continuum which produces the observed iron line/reflected spectrum. We use a fully relativistic ray tracing code to show that this implies that the source must be substantially larger than 1GM/c(2) in 1H0707-495 if the disc is the source of seed photons. Hence the source cannot fit as close as 1GM/c(2) to the horizon, so the observed spectrum and variability are not formed purely by effects of strong gravity but probably also by changes in corona and inner accretion flow geometry

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

BN - Astronomy and celestial mechanics, astrophysics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Astronomische Nachrichten

ISSN

0004-6337

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

337

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4-5

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

441-447

UT code for WoS article

000375725600017

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84964793148