Fe Kα lines from accreting black holes are produced mostly outside 10 gravitational radii due to radial ionization gradients, allowing broad profiles without high spin.
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A Monte Carlo model of a Kerr black hole corona shows that photon collisions create a dense electron-positron pair cloud concentrated near the black hole, yielding X-ray temperatures, Compton parameters, and 4-10% polarization consistent with binary black hole observations.
Radiative cooling in MADs above a transition accretion rate creates thinner denser filaments with increased efficiency, rendering conventional scale height measures misleading and motivating a new definition based on the polar position of the density maximum.
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Simulation-Based Prediction of Black Hole Fe K$\alpha$ Line Profiles
Fe Kα lines from accreting black holes are produced mostly outside 10 gravitational radii due to radial ionization gradients, allowing broad profiles without high spin.
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Pair-Rich Corona of an Accreting Kerr Black Hole
A Monte Carlo model of a Kerr black hole corona shows that photon collisions create a dense electron-positron pair cloud concentrated near the black hole, yielding X-ray temperatures, Compton parameters, and 4-10% polarization consistent with binary black hole observations.
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Characterizing the Scale Height and Filamentary Structure of Radiatively Cooled MADs
Radiative cooling in MADs above a transition accretion rate creates thinner denser filaments with increased efficiency, rendering conventional scale height measures misleading and motivating a new definition based on the polar position of the density maximum.