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The very high state accretion disk structure from the galactic black hole transient XTE J1550-564

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Aya Kubota (1), Chris Done (2) ((1) RIKEN, (2) University of Durham)

Astrophysics · Submitted 18 Dec 2003

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The authors' main claim The simplest interpretation is that this indicates that the optically thick disc is truncated in the strongly Comptonised very high state, so trivially giving the observed continuity of properties between the low/hard and very high states of Galactic black holes.

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Citation(2) University of Durham), Aya Kubota (1), Chris Done (2) ((1) RIKEN. "The very high state accretion disk structure from the galactic black hole transient XTE J1550-564." arXiv:astro-ph/0312493 (2003). https://pith.science/paper/BCSNNKJZ
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The 1998 outburst of the bright Galactic black hole binary system XTE J1550-564 was used to constrain the accretion disc structure in the strongly Comptonised very high state spectra. These data show that the disc emission is not easily compatible with the constant area L ~ T^4 behaviour seen during the thermal dominated high/soft state and weakly comptonised very high state. Even after correcting for the effects of the scattering geometry, the disc temperature is always much lower than expected for its derived luminosity in the very high state. The simplest interpretation is that this indicates that the optically thick disc is truncated in the strongly Comptonised very high state, so trivially giving the observed continuity of properties between the low/hard and very high states of Galactic black holes.

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s2 Even after correcting for the effects of the scattering geometry, the disc temperature is always much lower than expected for its derived luminosity in the very high state. result 1.00 0.85 0.11 asserted 1.00
s3 The simplest interpretation is that this indicates that the optically thick disc is truncated in the strongly Comptonised very high state, so trivially giving the observed continuity of properties between the low/hard and very high states of Galactic black holes. interpretation 1.00 0.53 0.89 hedged possibility 0.98

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The 1998 outburst of the bright Galactic black hole binary system XTE J1550-564 was used to constrain the accretion disc structure in the strongly Comptonised very high state spectra. These data show that the disc emission is not easily compatible with the constant area L ~ T^4 behaviour seen during the thermal dominated high/soft state and weakly comptonised very high state. Even after correcting for the effects of the scattering geometry, the disc temperature is always much lower than expected for its derived luminosity in the very high state. The simplest interpretation is that this indicates that the optically thick disc is truncated in the strongly Comptonised very high state, so trivially giving the observed continuity of properties between the low/hard and very high states of Galactic black holes.

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