6th FERO meeting

ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PRAGUE
Boční II 1401, 141 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic

30th – 31st of August 2012



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August



Francesco Tamborra

MoCA: a Monte Carlo code for Accretion

[presentation]

We developed a Monte Carlo code to study the X-ray polarization in accreting sources. The code, written in IDL, is fully special relativistic and it is modular: by changing the corona and disc parameters it can be applied to several astrophysics situations. On the occasion of the 6th FERO meeting we are going to present the first results applied to AGN. We simulated the overall polarization signal (degree and angle) produced by different corona geometries and we also calculated the expected degree of polarization of the emission Iron line. In the future we are going to include a ray tracing routine to the code in order to offer a fully relativistic and more realistic description of the phenomenon.