Correlation between Compton reflection and X-ray slope in Seyferts and X-ray binaries

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作者
Zdziarski, AA
Lubinski, P
Smith, DA
机构
[1] N Copernicus Astron Ctr, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[2] Warsaw Univ, Heavy Ion Lab, PL-02093 Warsaw, Poland
[3] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, High Energy Astrophys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[4] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[5] Univ Leicester, Dept Phys, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England
关键词
accretion; accretion discs; radiation mechanisms : thermal; binaries : general; galaxies : Seyfert; X-rays : galaxies; X-rays : stars;
D O I
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02343.x
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We find a very strong correlation between the intrinsic spectral slope in X-rays and the amount of Compton reflection from a cold medium in Seyfert AGNs and in the hard state of X-ray binaries with either black holes or weakly magnetized neutron stars. Objects with soft intrinsic spectra show much stronger reflection than those with hard spectra. We find that, at a given spectral slope, black hole binaries have similar reflection to or more reflection than Seyferts, whereas neutron star binaries in our sample have reflection consistent with that in Seyferts, The existence of the correlation implies a dominant role of the reflecting medium as a source of seed soft photons for thermal Comptonization in the primary X-ray source.
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