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First X-Ray Polarization Measurement Confirms the Low Black Hole Spin in LMC X-3
Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Boční II 1401/1, 14100 Praha 4, Czech Republic.
Nordita SU; Department of Physics and Astronomy, FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-5767-7253
INAF Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Roma, Italy, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100.
Antal upphovsmän: 1122024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 960, nr 1, artikel-id 3Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

X-ray polarization is a powerful tool to investigate the geometry of accreting material around black holes, allowing independent measurements of the black hole spin and orientation of the innermost parts of the accretion disk. We perform X-ray spectropolarimetric analysis of an X-ray binary system in the Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC X-3, that hosts a stellar-mass black hole, known to be persistently accreting since its discovery. We report the first detection of the X-ray polarization in LMC X-3 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, and find the average polarization degree (PD) of 3.2% ± 0.6% and a constant polarization angle of −42° ± 6° over the 2-8 keV range. Using accompanying spectroscopic observations by NICER, NuSTAR, and the Neil Gehrels Swift observatories, we confirm previous measurements of the black hole spin via the X-ray continuum method, a ≈ 0.2. From polarization analysis only, we found consistent results with low black hole spin, with an upper limit of a < 0.7 at a 90% confidence level. A slight increase in the PD with energy, similar to other black hole X-ray binaries in the soft state, is suggested from the data but with a low statistical significance.

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American Astronomical Society , 2024. Vol. 960, nr 1, artikel-id 3
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-342194DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0842ISI: 001126797200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85180980101OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-342194DiVA, id: diva2:1828041
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