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Fig. 9.

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Properties of the corona on the radius (R/Rschw) – accretion rate () parameter plane. All models are calculated for MBH = 10M, αB = 0.1, and ξ = 0.05. The panels display (a) the average temperature of the corona (Eq. (44)) in keV (colors) and τcor (contours); (b) the ionization parameter Ξ (colors) and magnetic β parameter (contours), both at the disk midplane; (c) the number density at τ = 2/3 (colors) and the total column density Σ in g cm2 (contours); (d) the fraction of radiative energy produced by the corona f (Eq. (45), colors), the maximum value of the magnetic field gradient q (Eq. (35), contours); (e) the y parameter of the warm corona (Eq. (46)), computed up to the thermalization layer τ = 1 (colors) and to τcor (contours); the (f) photon destruction probability (colors) and electron scattering optical depth (τes) (contours) at the thermalization layer; (g) the minimum value of ℒrad (Eq. (37)) throughout the disk height (colors), here, green areas are stable disks, and magenta areas indicate thermal instability in the corona, the gray dotted line corresponds to ℒrad = 0, and the ionization parameter Ξ at the corona base (contours); and (h) the radiative energy flux normalized to the total accretion flux (colors), and the disk scale ratio H/R (contours).

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