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Comptonization, reflection and noise in black hole binaries

2000/02/22 by M. Gilfanov, E. Churazov, Gilfanov, M. +3 · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0002415

to appear in Proc. of the 5th CAS/MPG Workshop on High Energy Astrophysics

arxiv created 2000/02/22 · openalex publication_date 2000/02/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Based on the analysis of a large sample of RXTE/PCA observations of several black hole binaries in the low spectral state we show that a correlation exists between the spectral parameters and characteristic noise frequency. In particular, the amplitude of reflection increases and the slope of Comptonized radiation steepens as the noise frequency increases. We consider possible implications of these results on the accretion flow models and discuss a possible observational test aimed to discriminate between different geometries of the accretion flow.

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