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

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

2007-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/0705.1125v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11846.x

XTE J1748-288 is a black hole X-ray transient which went into outburst in 1998 June. The X-ray lightcurves 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 (>20%) fractional linear polarisation, the variability of which was anti-correlated with the flux density. We use this variability to discuss possible depolarisation mechanisms and to predict the underlying behaviour of the (unresolved) core/jet components.

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