{
  "id": "2207.03228",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2022-07-07T11:25:05.000Z",
  "updated": "2022-07-07T11:25:05.000Z",
  "title": "Investigating the X-ray polarization of lamp-post coronae in BHXRB",
  "authors": [
    "Wenda Zhang",
    "Michal Dovčiak",
    "Michal Bursa",
    "Vladimír Karas",
    "Giorgio Matt",
    "Francesco Ursini"
  ],
  "comment": "Accepted for publication in MNRAS",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "High-sensitivity X-ray polarimetric observations of black hole X-ray binaries, which will soon become available with the launches of space-borne X-ray observatories with sensitive X-ray polarimeters, will be able to put independent constraints on the black hole as well as the accretion flow, and possibly break degeneracies that cannot be resolved by spectral/timing observations alone. In this work we perform a series of general relativistic Monte-Carlo radiative transfer simulations to study the expected polarization properties of X-ray radiation emerging from lamp-post coronae in black hole X-ray binaries. We find that the polarization degree of the coronal emission of black hole X-ray binaries is sensitive to the spin of the black hole, the height of the corona, and the dynamics of the corona.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2022-07-07T11:25:05.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "black hole x-ray binaries",
      "lamp-post coronae",
      "x-ray polarization",
      "high-sensitivity x-ray polarimetric observations",
      "relativistic monte-carlo radiative transfer simulations"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}