Observation of microquasars high-energy emission with INTEGRAL

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Auteurs principaux: Bouchet, T., Rodriguez, J., Cangemi, F., Laurent, P.
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author Bouchet, T.
Rodriguez, J.
Cangemi, F.
Laurent, P.
author_facet Bouchet, T.
Rodriguez, J.
Cangemi, F.
Laurent, P.
contents Microquasars are Black Hole X-ray binaries (BHXB) which can eject material in the form of a bipolar jet, similarly to quasars, but at much smaller scales. Their high-energy emission comes from an accretion disk (~ 1 keV) and from a hot "corona" near the black hole that up-scatters photons from the disk in the hard X-ray domain (1--100 keV). A high-energy component above 150 keV has been detected in bright sources and its precise origin is still unknown: it could come either from Compton scattering of disk photons on coronal relativistic non-thermal electrons (a.k.a hybrid Comptonization), or from the synchrotron emission from the very base of the compact jet. The measurement of polarization above 150 keV can provide valuable insights into the processes at play as we expect higher polarization fraction due to synchrotron emission from the jets (up to 70 % with a very ordered magnetic field). We use the INTEGRAL/IBIS telescope to measure the soft gamma-ray polarization of the Crab Nebula and the BHXB Swift J1727.8-1613.
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spellingShingle Observation of microquasars high-energy emission with INTEGRAL
Bouchet, T.
Rodriguez, J.
Cangemi, F.
Laurent, P.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Microquasars are Black Hole X-ray binaries (BHXB) which can eject material in the form of a bipolar jet, similarly to quasars, but at much smaller scales. Their high-energy emission comes from an accretion disk (~ 1 keV) and from a hot "corona" near the black hole that up-scatters photons from the disk in the hard X-ray domain (1--100 keV). A high-energy component above 150 keV has been detected in bright sources and its precise origin is still unknown: it could come either from Compton scattering of disk photons on coronal relativistic non-thermal electrons (a.k.a hybrid Comptonization), or from the synchrotron emission from the very base of the compact jet. The measurement of polarization above 150 keV can provide valuable insights into the processes at play as we expect higher polarization fraction due to synchrotron emission from the jets (up to 70 % with a very ordered magnetic field). We use the INTEGRAL/IBIS telescope to measure the soft gamma-ray polarization of the Crab Nebula and the BHXB Swift J1727.8-1613.
title Observation of microquasars high-energy emission with INTEGRAL
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10705