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Turbulent Comptonization in Relativistic Accretion Disks
Aristotle Socrates, Shane W. Davis, Omer Blaes
Turbulent Comptonization, a potentially important damping and radiation mechanism in relativistic accretion flows, is discussed. Particular emphasis is placed on the physical basis…
The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: An Explanation for the Observed Faintness of Starbursting Galaxies
Aristotle Socrates, Shane W. Davis, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
We show that the luminosity of a star forming galaxy is capped by the production and subsequent expulsion of cosmic rays from its interstellar medium. By defining an Eddington lumi…
The Spin of the Near-Extreme Kerr Black Hole GRS 1915+105
Jeffrey E. McClintock, Rebecca Shafee, Ramesh Narayan +3
Based on a spectral analysis of the X-ray continuum that employs a fully relativistic accretion-disk model, we conclude that the compact primary of the binary X-ray source GRS 1915…
A Grid of Relativistic, non-LTE Accretion Disk Models for Spectral Fitting of Black Hole Binaries
Shane W. Davis, Ivan Hubeny
Self-consistent vertical structure models together with non-LTE radiative transfer should produce spectra from accretion disks around black holes which differ from multitemperature…
Testing Accretion Disk Theory in Black Hole X-ray Binaries
Shane W. Davis, Chris Done, Omer M. Blaes
We present results from spectral modeling of three black hole X-ray binaries: LMC X-3, GRO J1655-40, and XTE J1550-564. Using a sample of disk dominated observations, we fit the da…
Magnetic pressure support and accretion disk spectra
O. M. Blaes, S. W. Davis, S. Hirose +2
Stellar atmosphere models of ionized accretion disks have generally neglected the contribution of magnetic fields to the vertical hydrostatic support, although magnetic fields are…