Discovery of X-Ray Polarization from the Black Hole Transient Swift J1727.8−1613

Autor: Alexandra Veledina, Fabio Muleri, Michal Dovčiak, Juri Poutanen, Ajay Ratheesh, Fiamma Capitanio, Giorgio Matt, Paolo Soffitta, Allyn F. Tennant, Michela Negro, Philip Kaaret, Enrico Costa, Adam Ingram, Jiří Svoboda, Henric Krawczynski, Stefano Bianchi, James F. Steiner, Javier A. García, Vadim Kravtsov, Anagha P. Nitindala, Melissa Ewing, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Andrea Marinucci, Francesco Ursini, Francesco Tombesi, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Yi-Jung Yang, Martin C. Weisskopf, Sergei A. Trushkin, Elise Egron, Maria Noemi Iacolina, Maura Pilia, Lorenzo Marra, Romana Mikušincová, Edward Nathan, Maxime Parra, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, Jakub Podgorný, Stefano Tugliani, Silvia Zane, Wenda Zhang, Iván Agudo, Lucio A. Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Luca Baldini, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Niccolò Bucciantini, Simone Castellano, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Chien-Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Laura Di Gesu, Niccolò Di Lalla, Alessandro Di Marco, Immacolata Donnarumma, Victor Doroshenko, Steven R. Ehlert, Teruaki Enoto, Yuri Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jeremy Heyl, Wataru Iwakiri, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Vladimir Karas, Fabian Kislat, Takao Kitaguchi, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Fabio La Monaca, Luca Latronico, Ioannis Liodakis, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Frédéric Marin, Alan P. Marscher, Herman L. Marshall, Francesco Massaro, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Chi-Yung Ng, Stephen L. O’Dell, Nicola Omodei, Chiara Oppedisano, Alessandro Papitto, George G. Pavlov, Abel L. Peirson, Matteo Perri, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Andrea Possenti, Simonetta Puccetti, Brian D. Ramsey, John Rankin, Oliver J. Roberts, Roger W. Romani, Carmelo Sgrò, Patrick Slane, Gloria Spandre, Douglas A. Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Roberto Taverna, Yuzuru Tawara, Nicholas E. Thomas, Alessio Trois, Roberto Turolla, Jacco Vink, Kinwah Wu, Fei Xie
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol 958, Iss 1, p L16 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-8213
2041-8205
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad0781
Popis: We report the first detection of the X-ray polarization of the bright transient Swift J1727.8−1613 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. The observation was performed at the beginning of the 2023 discovery outburst, when the source resided in the bright hard state. We find a time- and energy-averaged polarization degree of 4.1% ± 0.2% and a polarization angle of 2.°2 ± 1.°3 (errors at 68% confidence level; this translates to ∼20 σ significance of the polarization detection). This finding suggests that the hot corona emitting the bulk of the detected X-rays is elongated, rather than spherical. The X-ray polarization angle is consistent with that found in submillimeter wavelengths. Since the submillimeter polarization was found to be aligned with the jet direction in other X-ray binaries, this indicates that the corona is elongated orthogonal to the jet.
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