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The emission of compact jets powered by internal shocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2013

Julien Malzac
Julien Malzac*
Affiliation:
Université de Toulouse; UPS-OMP; IRAP; Toulouse, France CNRS; IRAP; 9 Av. colonel Roche, BP 44346, F-31028 Toulouse cedex 4, France email: Julien.Malzac@irap.omp.eu
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The emission of steady compact jets observed in the hard spectral state of X-ray binaries is likely to be powered by internal shocks caused by fluctuations of the outflow velocity. The dynamics of the internal shocks and the resulting spectral energy distribution (SED) of the jet is very sensitive to the shape of the Power Spectral Density (PSD) of the fluctuations of the jet Lorentz factor. I use Monte-Carlo simulations to investigate this dependence. It turns out that Lorentz factor fluctuations injected at the base of the jet with a flicker noise power spectrum (i.e. P(f) ∝ 1/f) naturally produce the canonical flat SED observed from radio to IR band in X-ray binary systems in the hard state. This model also predicts a strong, wavelength dependent, variability that resembles the observed one. In particular, strong sub-second variability is predicted in the infrared and optical bands.

Keywords

acceleration of particlesblack hole physicsradiation mechanisms: nonthermalmethods: analyticalmethods: numericalradio continuum: starsinfrared: starsX-rays: binaries
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S290: Feeding Compact Objects: Accretion on All Scales , August 2012 , pp. 66 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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