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Relations between phenomenological and physical parameters in the hot coronae of AGNs computed with the MoCA code
R. Middei, S. Bianchi, A. Marinucci +4
The primary X-ray emission in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is widely believed to be due to Comptonisation of the thermal radiation from the accretion disc in a corona of hot elect…
A deep X-ray view of the bare AGN Ark 120. VI. Geometry of the hot corona from spectroscopic and polarization signatures
A. Marinucci, D. Porquet, F. Tamborra +9
The spectral shape of the hard X-ray continuum of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be ascribed to inverse Compton scattering of optical/UV seed photons from the accretion disc by a…
MoCA: A Monte Carlo code for Comptonisation in Astrophysics. I. Description of the code and first results
Francesco Tamborra, Giorgio Matt, Stefano Bianchi +1
We present a new Monte Carlo code for Comptonisation in Astrophysics (MoCA). To our knowledge MoCA is the first code that uses a single photon approach in a full special relativity…
On the high energy cut-off of accreting sources: is GR relevant?
Francesco Tamborra, Iossif Papadakis, Michal Dovčiak +1
The hard X-ray emission observed in accreting compact sources is believed to be produced by inverse Compton scattering of soft photons arising from the accretion disc by energetic…
XIPE: the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer
Paolo Soffitta, Xavier Barcons, Ronaldo Bellazzini +96
X-ray polarimetry, sometimes alone, and sometimes coupled to spectral and temporal variability measurements and to imaging, allows a wealth of physical phenomena in astrophysics to…
Probing the origin of the iron K_alpha line around stellar and supermassive black holes using X-ray polarimetry
Frederic Marin, Francesco Tamborra
Asymmetric, broad iron lines are a common feature in the X-ray spectra of both X-ray binaries (XRBs) and type-1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). It was suggested that the distortion o…
The soft X-ray polarization in obscured AGN
Stefano Bianchi, Giorgio Matt, Francesco Tamborra +3
The soft X-ray emission in obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) is dominated by emission lines, produced in a gas photoionized by the nuclear continuum and likely spatially coinci…