The influence of outflows on the 1/f-like luminosity fluctuations

Abstract

In accretion systems, outflows may have significant influence on the luminosity fluctuations. In this paper, following the Lyubarskii's general scheme, we revisit the power spectral density of luminosity fluctuations by taking into account the role of outflows. Our analysis is based on the assumption that the coupling between the local outflow and inflow is weak on the accretion rate fluctuations. We find that, for the inflow mass accretion rate $\dot{M}\propto r^s$, the power spectrum of flicker noise component will present a power-law distribution $p(f)\propto f^{-(1+4s/3)}$ for advection-dominated flows. We also obtain descriptions of $p(f)$ for both standard thin discs and neutrino-cooled discs, which show that the power-law index of a neutrino-cooled disc is generally larger than that of a photon-cooled disc. Furthermore, the obtained relationship between $p(f)$ and $s$ indicates the possibility of evaluating the strength of outflows by the power spectrum in X-ray binaries and gamma-ray bursts. In addition, we discuss the possible influence of the outflow-inflow coupling on our results.

6 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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