Impact of the Accretion Disk Thickness on the Polarization of the Thermal Emission from Stellar Mass Black Holes

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, launched in 2021 December, enables precision measurements of the energy-dependent polarization of the X-ray emission from stellar mass and supermassive black holes. In this paper, we study the impact of the accretion disk geometry on the polarization of the th...

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Main Authors: Andrew Thomas West, Henric Krawczynski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf612