PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 285 - 11th INTEGRAL Conference Gamma-Ray Astrophysics in Multi-Wavelength Perspective (INTEGRAL2016) - Super-massive black holes in AGN
The nature of the coronae of accreting black holes
A.M. Lohfink
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Pre-published on: June 12, 2017
Published on: August 23, 2017
Abstract
Accreting black holes are powerful sources of radiation. The conversion of gravitational energy into radiation is thought to take place in an accretion disk-corona system just outside the black hole. In this system, thermal accretion disk photons are upscattered in a corona of hot electrons situated above the accretion disk, producing X-rays. The nature of this Comptonizing corona remains a key open question in astrophysics. I will discuss recent INTEGRAL and NuSTAR results on galactic black hole binary and AGN coronae.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.285.0042
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