xsdiskir

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Synopsis

Irradiated inner and outer disk. XSpec model.

The inner disk can be irradiated by the Compton tail. This can substantially change the inner disk temperature structure from that expected from an unilluminated disk in the limit where the ratio of luminosity in the tail to that in the disk, Lc/Ld>>1. This is generally the case in the low/hard state of accreting black holes, and neglecting this effect leads to an underestimate of the inner disk radius (Gierlinski, Done & Page 2008a MNRAS, 388, 753).

The irradiated inner disk and Compton tail can illuminate the rest of the disk, and a fraction f_out of the bolometric flux is thermalized to the local blackbody temperature at each radius. This reprocessed flux generally dominates the optical and UV bandpass of LMXBs (Gierlinski, Done & Page 2008b MNRAS, submitted).

This is an additive model component.

xsdiskir Parameters

Number	Name	Description
1	kt_disk	innermost temperature of the UNILLUMINATED disk
2	gamma	asymptotic power-law photon index
3	kt_e	electon temperature (high energy rollover)
4	lcld	Lc/Ld, ratio of luminosity in the Compton tail to that of the UNILLUMINATED disk
5	fin	fraction of luminosity in the Compton tail which is thermalized in the inner disk (generally fix at 0.1 as appropriate for an albedo of 0.3 and solid angle of 0.3)
6	rirr	radius of the Compton illuminated disk in terms of the inner disk radius
7	fout	fraction of bolometric flux which is thermalized in the outer disk
8	logrout	log10 of the outer disk radius in terms of the inner disk radius
9	norm	K; as in xsdiskbb

XSpec version

This information is taken from the XSpec User's Guide. Version 12.7.1 of the XSpec models is supplied with CIAO 4.4.1.

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