Electron thermalization and photon emission from magnetized compact sources

Abstract

We present detailed calculations of the electron thermalization by synchrotron self-absorption accounting for cooling by Compton scattering. For the first time, we solve coupled kinetic equations for electrons and photons without any approximations on the relevant cross-sections and compute self-consistently the resulting electron and photon distributions. The results presented in this contribution may be applied to the magnetized coronae around Galactic black hole accretion disks.

4 pages, 8 figures; Proceedings of the workshop 'High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows' (HEPRO), Dublin, Ireland

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• X-ray spectra of accretion discs with dynamic coronae
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