Thermal disc emission from a rotating black hole: X-ray polarization signatures

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 391, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-38

  Dovciak M ^a   Muleri, F ^b,c   Goosmann, R W ^a   Karas, V ^a   Matt, G ^d  

^a ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: polarimeters; Polarization; Relativity; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; GRAVITATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLARIMETERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RELATIVITY; STARS; X RAY DETECTORS;

BLACK HOLES; ENERGY; INSTRUMENTATION: POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION ANGLE; POLARIZATION SIGNATURES; THERMAL; THERMAL EMISSIONS; X-RAY POLARIMETERS; X-RAY POLARIZATIONS; X-RAYS: BINARIES;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 55849138376     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13872.x     Document Type: Article

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