Irradiation of the inner and outer disc
NOTE: This model is now in the Xspec release and this page is superceded by the Xspec manualThe inner disc can be irradiated by the Compton tail. This can substantially change the inner disc temperature structure from that expected from an unilluminated disc in the limit where the ratio of luminosity in the tail to that in the disc, Lc/Ld>>1. 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 disc radius (Gierlinski, Done & Page 2008a MNRAS, 388, 753).The irradiated inner disc and Compton tail can illuminate the rest of the disc, and a fraction f_out of the bolometric flux is thermalised to thelocal blackbody temperature at each radius. This reprocessed flux generally dominates the optical and UV bandpass of LMXBs (Gierlinski, Done & Page 2008b MNRAS, submitted). This model is built on top of the nthcomp model which must also be installed. The model parameters are :
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