κmonty: a Monte Carlo Compton scattering code including non-thermal electrons

ABSTRACT Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei are strong sources of X-ray emission produced by Compton scattering originating from the accretion flows surrounding their supermassive black holes. The shape and energy of the resulting spectrum depend on the shape of the underlying electron distributi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023-10, Vol.526 (4), p.5326-5336
Hauptverfasser: Davelaar, Jordy, Ryan, Benjamin R, Wong, George N, Bronzwaer, Thomas, Olivares, Hector, Mościbrodzka, Monika, Gammie, Charles F, Falcke, Heino
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACT Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei are strong sources of X-ray emission produced by Compton scattering originating from the accretion flows surrounding their supermassive black holes. The shape and energy of the resulting spectrum depend on the shape of the underlying electron distribution function (DF). In this work, we present an extended version of the grmonty code, called κmonty. The grmonty code previously only included a thermal Maxwell–Jütner electron DF. We extend the grmonty code with non-thermal electron DFs, namely the κ and power-law DFs, implement Cartesian Kerr–Schild coordinates, accelerate the code with mpi, and couple the code to the non-uniform adaptive mesh refinement grid data from the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code bhac. For the Compton scattering process, we derive two sampling kernels for both DFs. Finally, we present a series of code tests to verify the accuracy of our schemes. The implementation of non-thermal DFs opens the possibility of studying the effect of non-thermal emission on previously developed black hole accretion models.
ISSN:0035-8711
1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stad3023