Jul 26, 2024PRESS RELEASE
Polarized X-rays correlated with the short-timescale variability of Cygnus X-1
Keyword:RESEARCH
OBJECTIVE.
The research group including an Associate Professor Shinya Yamada (College of Science, Rikkyo University) systematically investigated the variability of polarized X-rays on a timescale of a few seconds in the low/hard state of the black hole binary Cygnus X-1.
The results of this research were published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan on July 25th.