A highly polarized radio jet during the 1998 outburst of the black hole transient XTE J1748-288

C. Brocksopp; J. C A Miller-Jones; R. P. Fender; B. W. Stappers

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11846.x

A highly polarized radio jet during the 1998 outburst of the black hole transient XTE J1748-288

C. Brocksopp, J. C A Miller-Jones, R. P. Fender, B. W. Stappers

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XTE J1748-288 is a black hole X-ray transient which went into outburst in 1998 June. The X-ray light curves showed canonical morphologies, with minor variations on the 'fast rise exponential decay' profile. The radio source, however, reached an unusually high flux density of over 600 mJy. This high radio flux was accompanied by an exceptional fractional linear polarization, the variability of which was anticorrelated with the flux density. We use this variability to discuss possible depolarization mechanisms and to predict the underlying behaviour of the (unresolved) core/jet components. © 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2007 RAS.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1111-1117
Number of pages	6
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	378
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11846.x
Publication status	Published - Jul 2007

Keywords

Accretion, accretion discs
ISM: jets and outflows
Stars: individual: XTE J1748-288
X-rays: binaries

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A highly polarized radio jet during the 1998 outburst of the black hole transient XTE J1748-288

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