3 papers
astro-ph.HE2019
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…
astro-ph.HE2018
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…
astro-ph.HE2018
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…