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Polarization radiation with turbulent magnetic fields from X-ray binaries | | Jian-Fu Zhang
; Fu-Yuan Xiang
; Ju-Fu Lu
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12 Jan 2017 | | Abstract: | We study the properties of polarized radiation in turbulent magnetic fields
from X-ray binary jets. These turbulent magnetic fields are composed of large-
and small-scale configurations, which result in the polarized jitter radiation
when the characteristic length of turbulence is less than the non-relativistic
Larmor radius. On the contrary, the polarized synchrotron emission occurs,
corresponding to a large-scale turbulent environment. We calculate the spectral
energy distributions and the degree of polarization for a general microquasar.
Numerical results show that turbulent magnetic field configurations can indeed
provide a high degree of polarization, which does not mean that a uniform,
large-scale magnetic field structure exists. The model is applied to
investigate the properties of polarized radiation of black hole X-ray binary
Cygnus X--1. Under the constraint of multiband observations of this source, our
studies demonstrate that the model can explain the high polarization degree at
MeV tail and predict the highly polarized properties at high-energy
$gamma$-ray region, and that the dominant small-scale turbulent magnetic field
plays an important role for explaining the highly polarized observation at hard
X-ray/soft $gamma$-ray bands. This model can be tested by polarization
observations of upcoming polarimeters at high-energy $gamma$-ray bands. | | Source: | arXiv, 1701.3527 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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