Theoretical modeling of Comptonized X-ray spectra of super-Eddington accretion flow: origin of hard excess in Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources

Abstract

X-ray continuum spectra of super-Eddington accretion flow are studied by means of Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations based on the radiation hydrodynamic simulation data, in which both of thermal and bulk Compton scatterings are taken into account. We compare the calculated spectra of accretion flow around black holes with masses of $M_{\mathrm{BH}}=10,10^2,10^3$, and $10^4{M}_{\odot }$ for a fixed mass injection rate (from the computational boundary at $10^3{r}_{\mathrm{s}}$) of $10^3{L}_{\mathrm{Edd}}/c^2$ (with $r_{\mathrm{s}}$, $L_{\mathrm{Edd}}$, and $c$ being the Schwarzschild radius, the Eddington luminosity, and the speed of light, respectively). The soft X-ray spectra exhibit mass dependence in accordance with the standard-disk relation; the maximum surface temperature is scaled as $T\propto M_{\mathrm{BH}}^{-1/4}$. The spectra in the hard X-ray bands, by contrast, look quite similar among different models, if we normalize the radiation luminosity by $M_{\mathrm{BH}}$. This reflects that the hard component is created by thermal and bulk Compton scattering of soft photons originating from an accretion flow in the over-heated and/or funnel regions, the temperatures of which have no mass dependence. The hard X-ray spectra can be reproduced by a Wien spectrum with temperature of $T\sim 3$ keV accompanied by a hard excess at photon energy above several keV. The excess spectrum can be well fitted with a power law with a photon index of $\Gamma \sim 3$. This feature is in good agreement with that of the recent NuSTAR observations of ULX (Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources).

arXiv comment10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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