X-ray reflection spectroscopy with improved calculations of the emission angle
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| author | Huang, Yimin Liu, Honghui Mirzaev, Temurbek Fan, Ningyue Bambi, Cosimo Zhang, Zuobin Dauser, Thomas Garcia, Javier A. Ingram, Adam Jiang, Jiachen Mastroserio, Guglielmo Riaz, Shafqat Shashank, Swarnim |
| author_facet | Huang, Yimin Liu, Honghui Mirzaev, Temurbek Fan, Ningyue Bambi, Cosimo Zhang, Zuobin Dauser, Thomas Garcia, Javier A. Ingram, Adam Jiang, Jiachen Mastroserio, Guglielmo Riaz, Shafqat Shashank, Swarnim |
| contents | The reflection spectrum produced by a cold medium illuminated by X-ray photons is not isotropic and its shape depends on the emission angle. In the reflection spectrum of an accretion disk of a black hole, the value of the emission angle changes over the disk and, in general, is different from the value of the inclination angle of the disk because of the light bending in the strong gravitational field of the black hole. Current reflection models make some approximations, as calculating a reflection spectrum taking the correct emission angle at every point of the disk into account would be too time-consuming and make the model too slow to analyze observations. In a recent paper, we showed that these approximations are unsuitable to fit high-quality black hole spectra expected from the next generation of X-ray missions. Here, we present a reflection model with improved calculations of the emission angle that solves this problem. |
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| spellingShingle | X-ray reflection spectroscopy with improved calculations of the emission angle Huang, Yimin Liu, Honghui Mirzaev, Temurbek Fan, Ningyue Bambi, Cosimo Zhang, Zuobin Dauser, Thomas Garcia, Javier A. Ingram, Adam Jiang, Jiachen Mastroserio, Guglielmo Riaz, Shafqat Shashank, Swarnim High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena The reflection spectrum produced by a cold medium illuminated by X-ray photons is not isotropic and its shape depends on the emission angle. In the reflection spectrum of an accretion disk of a black hole, the value of the emission angle changes over the disk and, in general, is different from the value of the inclination angle of the disk because of the light bending in the strong gravitational field of the black hole. Current reflection models make some approximations, as calculating a reflection spectrum taking the correct emission angle at every point of the disk into account would be too time-consuming and make the model too slow to analyze observations. In a recent paper, we showed that these approximations are unsuitable to fit high-quality black hole spectra expected from the next generation of X-ray missions. Here, we present a reflection model with improved calculations of the emission angle that solves this problem. |
| title | X-ray reflection spectroscopy with improved calculations of the emission angle |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00946 |