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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2022

A new emulated Monte Carlo radiative transfer disc-wind model: X-Ray Accretion Disc-wind Emulator - XRADE

G. A. Matzeu
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M. Lieu
  • Fonction : Auteur
M. T. Costa
  • Fonction : Auteur
J. N. Reeves
  • Fonction : Auteur
V. Braito
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M. Dadina
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E. Nardini
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P. G. Boorman
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M. L. Parker
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S. A. Sim
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E. Kammoun
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R. Middei
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M. Giustini
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M. Brusa
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J. Pérez Cabrera
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S. Marchesi
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Résumé

We present a new X-Ray Accretion Disc-wind Emulator (XRADE) based on the 2.5D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code that provides a physically motivated, self-consistent treatment of both absorption and emission from a disc wind by computing the local ionization state and velocity field within the flow. XRADE is then implemented through a process that combines X-ray tracing with supervised machine learning. We develop a novel emulation method consisting in training, validating, and testing the simulated disc-wind spectra into a purposely built artificial neural network. The trained emulator can generate a single synthetic spectrum for a particular parameter set in a fraction of a second, in contrast to the few hours required by a standard Monte Carlo radiative transfer pipeline. The emulator does not suffer from interpolation issues with multidimensional spaces that are typically faced by traditional X-ray fitting packages such as XSPEC. XRADE will be suitable to a wide number of sources across the black hole mass, ionizing luminosity, and accretion rate scales. As an example, we demonstrate the applicability of XRADE to the physical interpretation of the X-ray spectra of the bright quasar PDS 456, which hosts the best-established accretion disc wind observed to date. We anticipate that our emulation method will be an indispensable tool for the development of high-resolution theoretical models, with the necessary flexibility to be optimized for the next generation microcalorimeters onboard future missions, like X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)/Resolve and Athena/X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU). This tool can also be implemented across a wide variety of X-ray spectral models and beyond.
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insu-03867380 , version 1 (06-07-2023)

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G. A. Matzeu, M. Lieu, M. T. Costa, J. N. Reeves, V. Braito, et al.. A new emulated Monte Carlo radiative transfer disc-wind model: X-Ray Accretion Disc-wind Emulator - XRADE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 515, pp.6172-6190. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stac2155⟩. ⟨insu-03867380⟩
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