Bridging X-ray Polarization with Timing & Spectroscopic Parameters of a galactic black hole: Swift J1727.8-1613

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Autori principali: Chatterjee, Arka, Nath, Sujoy K., Chatterjee, Kaushik, Safi-Harb, Samar, Dutta, Broja G., Chattopadhyay, Indranil, Garain, Sudip K., Chang, Hsiang-Kuang
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author Chatterjee, Arka
Nath, Sujoy K.
Chatterjee, Kaushik
Safi-Harb, Samar
Dutta, Broja G.
Chattopadhyay, Indranil
Garain, Sudip K.
Chang, Hsiang-Kuang
author_facet Chatterjee, Arka
Nath, Sujoy K.
Chatterjee, Kaushik
Safi-Harb, Samar
Dutta, Broja G.
Chattopadhyay, Indranil
Garain, Sudip K.
Chang, Hsiang-Kuang
contents We report the discovery of a correlated energy-dependent time lag and degree of polarization for Swift J1727.8-1613 during its 2023 outburst. The energy-dependent time lag is measured around the type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) observed by IXPE on 2023-09-07, while the degree of polarization is obtained from energy-resolved polarimetric measurements. The Spearman correlation coefficient was found to be 0.8, with a null hypothesis probability of 4.2\%. Furthermore, the correlation value drops as the quality factor, or Q value, of the observed QPO frequencies decreases. The spectral properties of Swift J1727.8-1613 are analyzed using simultaneous Insight/HXMT data. Thereafter, we present model-independent theoretical arguments to show that processes other than inverse Comptonization also contributes to both the observed polarization and time lags. This correlation may therefore point to additional mechanisms contributing to the connection between the spectral, temporal, and polarimetric properties of black hole binaries in their hard state.
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spellingShingle Bridging X-ray Polarization with Timing & Spectroscopic Parameters of a galactic black hole: Swift J1727.8-1613
Chatterjee, Arka
Nath, Sujoy K.
Chatterjee, Kaushik
Safi-Harb, Samar
Dutta, Broja G.
Chattopadhyay, Indranil
Garain, Sudip K.
Chang, Hsiang-Kuang
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
We report the discovery of a correlated energy-dependent time lag and degree of polarization for Swift J1727.8-1613 during its 2023 outburst. The energy-dependent time lag is measured around the type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) observed by IXPE on 2023-09-07, while the degree of polarization is obtained from energy-resolved polarimetric measurements. The Spearman correlation coefficient was found to be 0.8, with a null hypothesis probability of 4.2\%. Furthermore, the correlation value drops as the quality factor, or Q value, of the observed QPO frequencies decreases. The spectral properties of Swift J1727.8-1613 are analyzed using simultaneous Insight/HXMT data. Thereafter, we present model-independent theoretical arguments to show that processes other than inverse Comptonization also contributes to both the observed polarization and time lags. This correlation may therefore point to additional mechanisms contributing to the connection between the spectral, temporal, and polarimetric properties of black hole binaries in their hard state.
title Bridging X-ray Polarization with Timing & Spectroscopic Parameters of a galactic black hole: Swift J1727.8-1613
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15940