A&A 447, 263-276 (2006)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053633

A broadband leptonic model for gamma-ray emitting microquasars

V. Bosch-Ramon¹, G. E. Romero^{2, 3} and J. M. Paredes<sup>1

1</sup>  Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    e-mail: vbosch@am.ub.es; jmparedes@ub.edu
²  Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía, C.C.5, (1894) Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    e-mail: romero@iar.unlp.edu.ar
³  Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, UNLP, Paseo del Bosque, 1900 La Plata, Argentina

(Received 14 June 2005 / Accepted 19 September 2005 )

Abstract
Observational and theoretical studies point to microquasars (MQs) as possible counterparts of a significant fraction of the unidentifiedgamma-ray sources detected so far. At present, a proper scenario to explain the emission beyond soft X-rays from these objects is not known, nor what the precise connection is between the radio and the high-energy radiation. We develop a new model where the MQ jet is dynamically dominated by cold protons and radiatively dominated by relativistic leptons. The matter content and power of the jet are both related with the accretion process. The magnetic field is assumed to be close to equipartition, although it is attached to and dominated by the jet matter. For the relativistic particles in the jet, their maximum energy depends on both the acceleration efficiency and the energy losses. The model takes into account the interaction of the relativistic jet particles with the magnetic field and all the photon and matter fields. Such interaction produces significant amounts of radiation from radio to very high energies through synchrotron, relativistic Bremsstrahlung, and inverse Compton (IC) processes. Variability of the emission produced by changes in the accretion process (e.g. via orbital eccentricity) is also expected. The effects of the gamma-ray absorption by the external photon fields on the gamma-ray spectrum have been taken into account, revealing clear spectral features that might be observed. This model is consistent to the accretion scenario, energy conservation laws, and current observational knowledge, and can provide deeper physical information of the source when tested against multiwavelength data.

Key words: X-rays: binaries -- stars: winds, outflows -- gamma-rays: observations -- gamma-rays: theory

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