The pertinence of Jet Emitting Discs physics to Microquasars: Application to Cygnus X-1

Abstract

The interpretation of the X-ray spectra of X-ray binaries during their hard states requires a hot, optically thin medium. There are several accretion disc models in the literature that account for this aspect. However, none is designed to simultaneously explain the presence of powerful jets detected during these states. A new quasi-keplerian hot accretion disc solution, a Jet Emitting disc (JED hereafter), which is part of a global disc-jet MHD structure producing stationary super-alfvénic ejection, is investigated here. Its radiative and energetic properties are then compared to the observational constraints found in Cygnus X-1. We solve the disc energy equation by balancing the local heating term with advection and cooling by synchrotron, bremsstrahlung and Comptonization processes. The heating term, disc density, accretion velocity and magnetic field amplitude were taken from published self-similar models of accretion-ejection structures. Both optically thin and thick regimes are considered in a one temperature gas supported disc. Three branches of solutions are found possible at a given radius but we investigate only the hot, optically thin and geometrically slim solutions. These solutions give simultaneously, and in a consistent way, the radiative and energetics properties of the disc-jet system. They are able to very well reproduce the accretion-ejection properties of Cygnus X-1, namely its X-ray spectral emission, jet power and jet velocity. About half of the released accretion power is used to produce two mildly relativistic (v/c~0.5) jets and for a luminosity of the order of 1\% of the Eddington luminosity, the JED temperature and optical depth are close to that observed in the hard state Cygnus X-1. The JEDs properties are in agreement with the observations of the prototypical black hole binary Cygnus X-1. and are likely to be relevant to the whole class of microquasars.

12 pages, 9 figures. Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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