Polarized Light from Accreting Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
Abstract
Thanks to IXPE, the X-ray spectro-polarimeter launched at the end of 2021, X-ray polarimetry has finally become an extraordinary tool in investigating the physics of accretion in low mass X-ray binaries. Similarly to what happened with gravitational waves, X-ray polarimetry would play a new complementary but at the same time fundamental role in the high-energy astrophysical domain. We summarize here the first 1.5 yr results on accreting low-mass X-ray binaries obtained by a huge IXPE observation campaign coordinated with the principal X-ray and $γ $-ray telescopes. Then we compare these results with the theoretical prediction highlighting the unexpected results.
- Publication:
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Astronomy Reports
- Pub Date:
- December 2023
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S1063772923140044
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2312.14779
- Bibcode:
- 2023ARep...67S.151C
- Keywords:
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- X-ray binaries;
- polarization;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- Proceeding presented at the Fifth Zeldovich meeting, an international conference held in Yerevan, Armenia on June 12-16, 2023. To be published in Astronomy Report