Speaker
Riccardo Middei
(Univ. Roma Tre)
Description
The primary emission in Actve Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is widely believed to be due to Comptonization of the thermal radiation from the accretion disk in a "corona" of hot electrons. The resulting spectra can, in the first approximation, be modelled with a cut-off power law.
Taking advantage of MoCA, a Monte Carlo code calculating spectral and polarization properties of the coronal emission, we computed Comptonization spectra for different parameters of the hot corona, comparing them with cut-off power laws. Plots to convert phenomenological parameters (cut-off energy and photon index) into physical ones (temperature and optical depth) will be presented and discussed.
| Affiliation | Università degli Studi Roma Tre |
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Primary author
Riccardo Middei
(Univ. Roma Tre)
Co-authors
Andrea Marinucci
(Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Stefano Bianchi
(Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Giorgio Matt
(Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Francesco Tamborra
