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X-Ray Polarization Signatures from Comptonization by Magnetic Reconnection Plasmoids

  • Authors: John Groger, Kun Hu, Henric Krawczynski

John Groger et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Polarization of the emission from an equatorial current when the plasmoids move perpendicular to the line of sight (along x), toward and away from the observer (along y), and when averaging over the equatorial plane for i = 27﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{{\unicode{x000b0}}}﹩8, corresponding to viewing a reconnection sheet in the equatorial plane of Cyg X-1.

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