Unity in diversity: Constraints on jet/disk geometry and radiative processes in stellar black holes via modeling broadband SEDs

Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • R.M. Bandyopadhyay
  • S. Wachter
  • D. Gelino
  • C.R. Gelino
Book title A Population Explosion: The Nature & Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Diverse Environments
Book subtitle St. Pete Beach, Florida, 28 October-2 November 2007
ISBN
  • 9780735405301
Series AIP Conference Proceedings
Event A Population Explosion: The Nature & Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Diverse Environments, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA
Pages (from-to) 94-96
Publisher Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
State transitions in X-ray binaries are manifestations of instabilities in the accretion in/outflow. Therefore, time dependence in the energetics must to be taken into account to understand such transitions. However, most spectral models assume a static, steady-state scenario, and therefore work well only when the source is either in the hard state or in the soft state. For example, a compact jet model, coupled with a T~R(-3/4) accretion disk and a thermal blackbody (see e.g. (Markoff et al. 2005) for a description of the model), has been successfully used to model broadband spectra of several X-ray binaries in the hard state, but not the intermediate states. With the long-term goal to study time dependence, we present new results of studying quasi-simultaneous broadband data from radio to X-rays for GX 339-4 and J1118+480 in the hard X-ray state, using the jet model, to constrain system geometry and emission processes, which will in turn serve as starting points for the time-dependent models.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2945099
Permalink to this page
Back