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Spectral and polarization properties of black hole accretion disc emission: including absorption effects

Identifikátory výsledku

  • Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985815%3A_____%2F21%3A00549680" target="_blank" >RIV/67985815:_____/21:00549680 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Výsledek na webu

    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3859" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3859</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3859" target="_blank" >10.1093/mnras/staa3859</a>

Alternativní jazyky

  • Jazyk výsledku

    angličtina

  • Název v původním jazyce

    Spectral and polarization properties of black hole accretion disc emission: including absorption effects

  • Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

    The study of radiation emitted from black hole (BH) accretion discs represents a crucial way to understand the main physical properties of these sources, and in particular the BH spin. Beside spectral analysis, polarimetry is becoming more and more important, motivated by the development of new techniques which will soon allow to perform measurements also in the X- and gamma-rays. Photons emitted from BH accretion discs in the soft state are indeed expected to be polarized, with an energy dependence which can provide an estimate of the BH spin. Calculations performed so far, however, considered scattering as the only process to determine the polarization state of the emitted radiation, implicitly assuming that the temperatures involved are such that material in the disc is entirely ionized. In this work, we generalize the problem by calculating the ionization structure of a surface layer of the disc with the public code cloudy, and then by determining the polarization properties of the emerging radiation using the Monte Carlo code stokes. This allows us to account for absorption effects alongside scattering ones. We show that including absorption can deeply modify the polarization properties of the emerging radiation with respect to what is obtained in the pure-scattering limit. As a general rule, we find that the polarization degree is larger when absorption is more important, which occurs, for example, for low accretion rates and/or spins when the ionization of the matter in the innermost accretion disc regions is far from complete.

  • Název v anglickém jazyce

    Spectral and polarization properties of black hole accretion disc emission: including absorption effects

  • Popis výsledku anglicky

    The study of radiation emitted from black hole (BH) accretion discs represents a crucial way to understand the main physical properties of these sources, and in particular the BH spin. Beside spectral analysis, polarimetry is becoming more and more important, motivated by the development of new techniques which will soon allow to perform measurements also in the X- and gamma-rays. Photons emitted from BH accretion discs in the soft state are indeed expected to be polarized, with an energy dependence which can provide an estimate of the BH spin. Calculations performed so far, however, considered scattering as the only process to determine the polarization state of the emitted radiation, implicitly assuming that the temperatures involved are such that material in the disc is entirely ionized. In this work, we generalize the problem by calculating the ionization structure of a surface layer of the disc with the public code cloudy, and then by determining the polarization properties of the emerging radiation using the Monte Carlo code stokes. This allows us to account for absorption effects alongside scattering ones. We show that including absorption can deeply modify the polarization properties of the emerging radiation with respect to what is obtained in the pure-scattering limit. As a general rule, we find that the polarization degree is larger when absorption is more important, which occurs, for example, for low accretion rates and/or spins when the ionization of the matter in the innermost accretion disc regions is far from complete.

Klasifikace

  • Druh

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

  • CEP obor

  • OECD FORD obor

    10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Návaznosti výsledku

  • Projekt

    <a href="/cs/project/GA18-00533S" target="_blank" >GA18-00533S: Reverberace akrečních disků černých děr</a><br>

  • Návaznosti

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Ostatní

  • Rok uplatnění

    2021

  • Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku

  • Název periodika

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

  • ISSN

    0035-8711

  • e-ISSN

    1365-2966

  • Svazek periodika

    501

  • Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

    3

  • Stát vydavatele periodika

    GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

  • Počet stran výsledku

    13

  • Strana od-do

    3393-3405

  • Kód UT WoS článku

    000610549500022

  • EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

    2-s2.0-85100290645