pith. sign in

arxiv: astro-ph/0207474 · v2 · submitted 2002-07-22 · 🌌 astro-ph

Comptonization and reflection of X-ray radiation and the X-ray-radio correlation in the chi-states of GRS 1915+105

classification 🌌 astro-ph
keywords powerreflectionchi-statescorrelationdiskslopex-rayabove
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

We present a comprehensive X-ray study of four years of pointed RXTE observations of GRS 1915+105 in the chi-state. We interpret the behavior of the hard power law tail spectrum as coming from inverse Compton scattering of soft disk photons on a thermally dominated hybrid corona above the accretion disk. GRS 1915+105 shows a strong, variable reflection amplitude. As in other BHC and in Seyfert galaxies, a correlation between the power law slope and the reflection was found. Also, the radio fluxes at 2.25 GHz and 15 GHz correlate with the power law slope, thus revealing a connection between the outflowing matter and the comptonizing region in the chi-states.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.