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diskir: Irradiated inner and outer disk
The inner disk can be irradiated by the Compton tail. This can
substantially change the inner disk temperature structure from that
expected from an unilluminated disk in the limit where the ratio of
luminosity in the tail to that in the disk, 
. This is
generally the case in the low/hard state of accreting black holes, and
neglecting this effect leads to an underestimate of the inner disk
radius (Gierlinski, Done & Page 2008).
The irradiated inner disk and Compton tail can illuminate the rest of
the disk, and a fraction 
of the bolometric flux is thermalized
to the local blackbody temperature at each radius. This reprocessed
flux generally dominates the optical and UV bandpass of LMXBs
(Gierlinski, Done & Page 2009).
| par1 | kT_disk, innermost temperature of the UNILLUMINATED disk |
| par2 | Gamma, asymptotic power-law photon index |
| par3 | kT_e, electon temperature (high energy rollover) |
| par4 | Lc/Ld, ratio of luminosity in the Compton tail to that of the UNILLUMINATED disk |
| par5 | fin, fraction of luminosity in the Compton tail which is thermalized in the inner disk (generally fix at 0.1 as appropriate for an albedo of 0.3 and solid angle of 0.3) |
| par6 | rirr, radius of the Compton illuminated disk in terms of the inner disk radius |
| par7 | fout, fraction of bolometric flux which is thermalized in the outer disk |
| par8 | logrout, log10 of the outer disk radius in terms of the inner disk radius K = normalization, as in diskbb |