High energy power-law tail in X-ray binaries spectrum and bulk Comptonization due to a conical outflow from a disk
Abstract
X-ray binaries (XRBs) often exhibit a high energy power-law tail (X-ray) and these tails can be generated by the bulk Comptonization (BMC) process with a free-fall bulk region onto the compact object. We frequently observe a radio emission (which is generated by a synchrotron-emitting outflowing electrons) from the XRBs. We aim to study the high energy power-law tail in BMC process by an outflowing medium. We mainly consider a collimated and conical (of opening angle $\theta_b$ with axis perpendicular to the accretion disk) outflow for a BMC process. We simulate the bulk Comptonized spectra by using a Monte Carlo scheme. Out of two possible conical outflow directions i) along the surface of the cone, ii) inside the conic region, we find that a) the randomness of outflow directions increases with $\theta_b$, b) the emergent spectra have power-law tail (of photon index $\Gamma$ $>$ 2 and with high energy cut-off $E_{c}$ $>$ 200 keV) only for $\theta_b$ greater than $\sim$30 degree, while for a collimated or a conical outflow ($\theta_b$ $<$ 30degree) these power-law tail can be only generated when it is also found in thermal Comptonized spectra (i.e., at sufficiently high medium temperature). We compare the GRS 1915+105 spectra for two classes $\chi$ and $\gamma$, for this the outflow speed is highly relativistic and the relevancy of wind parameters suggest that wind must be occurred at inner region of the accretion disk, so consistent with inner disk radio emission.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2017
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1708.04427
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1708.04427
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv170804427K
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- v1: 4 figures