期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 737, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/737/1/L17
关键词
accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; methods: numerical; X-rays: binaries
资金
- Finnish Graduate School in Astronomy and Space Physics
- Academy of Finland [127512]
- Wihuri Foundation
- ERC [227634]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [127512, 127512] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
- European Research Council (ERC) [227634] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
The physical picture of the emission mechanisms operating in the X-ray binaries was put under question by the simultaneous optical/X-ray observations with high time resolution. The light curves of the two energy bands appeared to be connected and the cross-correlation functions observed in three black hole binaries exhibited a complicated shape. They show a dip of the optical emission a few seconds before the X-ray peak and the optical flare just after the X-ray peak. This behavior could not be explained in terms of standard optical emission candidates (e. g., emission from the cold accretion disk or a jet). We propose a novel model, which explains the broadband optical to the X-ray spectra and the variability properties. We suggest that the optical emission consists of two components: synchrotron radiation from the non-thermal electrons in the hot accretion flow and the emission produced by reprocessing of the X-rays in the outer part of the accretion disk. The first component is anti-correlated with the X-rays, while the second one is correlated, but delayed and smeared relative to the X-rays. The interplay of the components explains the complex shape of the cross-correlation function, the features in the optical power spectral density as well as the time lags.
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