COMPTONIZED PHOTON SPECTRA OF SUPERCRITICAL BLACK HOLE ACCRETION FLOWS WITH APPLICATION TO ULTRALUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCES

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作者
Kawashima, T. [1 ]
Ohsuga, K. [2 ]
Mineshige, S. [3 ]
Yoshida, T. [3 ]
Heinzeller, D. [3 ,4 ]
Matsumoto, R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Grad Sch Sci, Inage Ku, Chiba 2638522, Japan
[2] Natl Inst Nat Sci, Natl Astron Observ Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[3] Kyoto Univ, Dept Astron, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[4] Meteorol Serv New Zealand Ltd, Wellington 6012, New Zealand
关键词
accretion; accretion disks; black hole physics; hydrodynamics; radiative transfer; RADIATION-MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; FLUX-LIMITED DIFFUSION; DISKS; MODEL; STATE; APPEARANCE; CANDIDATES; GALAXIES; OUTFLOW; JET;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/18
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Radiation spectra of supercritical black hole accretion flows are computed using a Monte Carlo method by post-processing the results of axisymmetric radiation hydrodynamic simulations. We take into account thermal/bulk Comptonization, free-free absorption, and photon trapping. We found that a shock-heated region (similar to 10(8) K) appears at the funnel wall near the black hole where the supersonic inflow is reflected by the centrifugal barrier of the potential. Both thermal and bulk Comptonization significantly harden photon spectra although most of the photons upscattered above 40 keV are swallowed by the black hole due to the photon trapping. When the accretion rate onto the black hole is (M) over dot approximate to 200L(E)/c(2), where L-E is the Eddington luminosity, the spectrum has a power-law component which extends up to similar to 10 keV by upscattering of photons in the shock-heated region. In higher mass accretion rates, the spectra roll over around 5 keV due to downscattering of the photons by cool electrons in the dense outflow surrounding the jet. Our results are consistent with the spectral features of ultraluminous X-ray sources, which typically show either a hard power-law component extending up to 10 keV or a rollover around 5 keV. We found that the spectrum of NGC 1313 X-2 is quite similar to the spectrum numerically obtained for high accretion rate ((M) over dot approximate to 1000L(E)/c(2)) source observed with low viewing angle (i = 10 degrees-20 degrees). Our numerical results also demonstrate that the face-on luminosity of supercritically accreting stellar mass black holes (10 M-circle dot) can significantly exceed 10(40) erg s(-1).
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