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An Accretion-Jet Model for Black Hole Binaries: Interpreting the Spectral and Timing Features of XTE J1118+480 | Feng Yuan
; Wei Cui
; Ramesh Narayan
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29 Jul 2004 | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 620 (2005) 905-914 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | Purdue), Wei Cui (Purdue), Ramesh Narayan (Harvard | Abstract: | Multi-wavelength observations of the black hole X-ray binary XTE J1118+480 have offered abundant spectral and timing information about the source, and have thus provided serious challenges to theoretical models. We propose a coupled accretion-jet model to interpret the observations. We model the accretion flow as an outer standard thin accretion disk truncated at a transition radius by an inner hot accretion flow. The accretion flow accounts for the observed UV and X-ray emission, but it substantially under-predicts the radio and infrared fluxes, even after we allow for nonthermal electrons in the hot flow. We attribute the latter components to a jet. We model the jet emission by means of the internal shock scenario which is widely employed for gamma-ray bursts. In our accretion-jet model of XTE J1118+480, the jet dominates the radio and infrared emission, the thin disk dominates the UV emission, and the hot flow produces most of the X-ray emission. The optical emission has contributions from all three components: jet, thin disk, and hot flow. The model qualitatively accounts for timing features, such as the intriguing positive and negative time lags between the optical and X-ray emission, and the wavelength-dependent variability amplitude. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0407612 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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