Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Leptonic andHadronic Processes and Relevant Computing Tools

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF THE BLACK HOLE’ S SPIN ON THE EMISSION FROM X-RAY BINARY SYSTEMS
Oral presentation-THEODORA PAPAVASILEIOU
ABSTRACT

Black hole X-ray binary systems consist of a black hole devouring mass out of its companion star, forming an accretion disk. Perpendicularly to the disk, two relativistic plasma ejections (jets) are launched towards opposite directions. The X-ray binary system emits a wide range of frequencies from radio to high-energy gamma-rays. The main contributors are thermal emission from the disk and non-thermal jet components (i.e., synchrotron emission, inverse Comptonization of less energetic photons, etc.). Pseudo-Newtonian potentials are often incorporated as an alternative solution to general relativity and successfully replicate the inner disk boundary conditions. However, most theoretical studies ignore the black hole’s rotation and, thus, the Kerr metric properties that significantly impact the accretion
disk modeling and the corresponding energy output. In this work, we implement a very efficient pseudo-Newtonian potential around Kerr black holes derived by Mukhopadhyay, and we propose a generalized disk temperature profile that involves the spin’s contribution on the emission spectrum of the accretion disk. In addition, we measure the spin’s impact on the relativistic jet emission due to photon absorption and the inverse Comptonization of the disk’s thermal photons on the jet’s accelerated particles.