2011A&A...533A..67S -
Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 533A, 67-67 (2011/9-1)
Testing slim-disk models on the thermal spectra of LMC X-3.
STRAUB O., BURSA M., SADOWSKI A., STEINER J.F., ABRAMOWICZ M.A., KLUZNIAK W., McCLINTOCK J.E., NARAYAN R. and REMILLARD R.A.
Abstract (from CDS):
Slim-disk models describe advective accretion flows at high luminosities, while reducing to the standard thin disk form in the low luminosity limit. We have developed a new spectral model, slimbb, within the framework of XSPEC, which describes fully relativistic slim-disk accretion and includes photon ray-tracing that starts from the disk photosphere, rather than the equatorial plane. We demonstrate the features of this model by applying it to RXTE spectra of the persistent black-hole X-ray binary LMC X-3. LMC X-3 has the virtues of exhibiting large intensity variations while maintaining itself in soft spectral states which are well described using accretion-disk models, making it an ideal candidate to test the aptness of slimbb. Our results demonstrate consistency between the low-luminosity (thin-disk) and high luminosity (slim-disk) regimes. The results also illustrate that advection alone does not solve the problem of the origin of the surprisingly soft high-luminosity spectra in LMC X-3. We show that X-ray continuum-fitting in the high accretion rate regime can powerfully test black-hole accretion disk models.
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accretion, accretion disks - black hole physics - X-rays: binaries
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