Discovery of variable optical polarization in Her X-1.
Abstract
Observations of the orbit-dependent linear polarization of Her X-1 in white light are presented. There is a variation of the polarization in the present data with amplitudes of 0.2 and 0.3 percent, respectively, for the two Stokes parameters Px and Py.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- April 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991A&A...244L..41E
- Keywords:
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- Accretion Disks;
- Astronomical Photometry;
- Optical Polarization;
- X Ray Binaries;
- Binary Stars;
- Ephemeris Time;
- Fourier Series;
- Astrophysics