Compton cooling and the signature of Quasi Periodic Oscillations for the transient black hole candidate H 1743-322

S. Mondal1*, S. K. Chakrabarti1,2, D. Debnath1, A. Jana1, A. Ali Molla1
1Indian Centre for Space Physics, Chalantika 43, Garia Station Rd., Kolkata, 700084, India
2S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700098, India

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Abstract

In black hole accretion cooling of the Compton cloud has an enormous effect on the dynamics of post-shock flow. We demonstrate that the Compton cooling is highly responsible for the origin of Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) during the outburst time of the galactic black hole candidates (BHCs). Our study shows that the disk oscillation will take place when infall time from the shock roughly agrees with cooling time in the post-shock region i.e., the resonance condition. We believe that this oscillation is responsible for the origin of QPOs and will occur only when a particular disk condition (disk rate, halo rate and shock strength) satisfies. We also confirm that shock moves with an average velocity of a few meters /sec for the transient BHC H1743-322 due to the presence of Compton cooling.



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Keywords : black hole physics, accretion, accretion disk, shock waves, hydrodynamics