Publication date: Nov 1992
Abstract:
We develop a method of calculating the X-ray signal from a ‚spot‘
corotating with an accretion disk around a black hole and the emission
line from the X-ray-illuminated disk. The disk self-eclipse is
considered, and all effects of general relativity on the motion of
photons are included with no approximation. The eclipse strongly affects
the shape of the X-ray light curve of the spot and the K fluorescent
line irradiated by the disk. The FWHM and strength of the line profile
are reduced significantly if the eclipsed region of the orbit is very
deep. For a given radius of a ring in the disk, this occurs when the
eclipsed region of the orbit is deeper than pi/2. The centroid of a line
profile is also subject to the eclipse effect.
Authors:
Bao, G.; Stuchlik, Z.;