sssed: Shakura & Sunyaev spectral energy distribution
The SSsed model was developed by Kubota et al. (2024 MNRAS 528, 1668)
to describe spectral energy distribution (SED) of black hole binaries
(BHBs). This model is a revised version of the agnsed model (Kubota &
Done 2018, MNRAS, 489, 524), but it was tuned to BHBs, and especially
to their intermediate spectra where there are clearly two Compton
components as well as (truncated) disc. The key concept is that the
flow is radially stratified such that the accretion power is emitted
as (colour-corrected) black body radiation at , while it is emitted as
inverse-Comptonization by both the thermal and non-thermal corona at
.
The seed photons are assumed to be emitted from the underlying passive
disc at . All the emission is constrained by the standard disc
emissivity by Shakura & Sunyaev (1973), with
constant with radius. If the components of the outer disc are visible,
both parameters and are determined independently. In cases where the
outer disc is not visible, such as in the bright hard state, caution
is needed in interpreting the obtained value of .
The parameters of the SSsed model are summarised below. Note that the
model has some switching parameters controlling the following behaviors::
- If parameter 6 is negative, the model gives the inner hot
Comptonisation component.
- If parameter 7 is negative, the model gives the Comptonisation
component in the passive-disc corona region.
- If parameter 9 is negative, the model gives the outer disc.
- If parameter 12 is -1, the code will use the self-gravity radius
as calculate from Laor & Netzer (1989, MNRAS, 238, 897).
- Colour correction is included when parameter 14 is
set to 1, while it is not included when this
parameter is set to 0. For BHB spectra, this
parameter should be fixed at 1.
par1 |
mass, black hole mass in solar masses |
par2 |
dist, comoving (proper) distance in kpc |
par3 |
logmdot, where
and
where
 |
par4 |
Rin, inner most radius of the accretion flow in  |
par5 |
cosi, inclination angle of the disc |
par6 |
kTe_th, electron temperature for thermal corona in keV. If this parameter
is negative, the model gives the inner hot Comptonisation component. |
par7 |
kTe_nt, apparent electron temperature for non-thermal corona in keV which
is recommended to be fixed at 300 keV to mimic non-thermal electron
distribution. If this parameter is negative, the model gives the
Comptonisation component in the passive-disc corona region. |
par8 |
Gamma_th, photon index of inner hot corona. If this parameter is negative,
then only the inner Compton component is used. |
par9 |
Gamma_nt, photon index of disc-corona. If this parameter is negative, the
model gives the outer disc. |
par10 |
frac_th, fraction of the hot Comptonising component to the total
Comptonisation |
par11 |
Rcor, outer radius of the disc-corona region in  |
par12 |
logrout, outer radius of accretion disc in . If this parameter is -1,
the code will use the self gravity radius as calculated from Laor &
Netzer (1989) |
par13 |
redshift must be fixed |
par14 |
color_cor, switching parameter for colour correction (0: no colour
correction, 1: colour correction factor is calculated by the same
way as optxagnf (Done et al. 2012 MNRAS, 420, 1848) |
norm |
must be fixed at 1 |
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