Discovery of variable optical polarization in HER X-1

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Accretion Disks, Astronomical Photometry, Optical Polarization, X Ray Binaries, Binary Stars, Ephemeris Time, Fourier Series

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Observations of the orbit-dependent linear polarization of Her X-1 in
white light are presented. There is a variation of the polarization in
the present data with amplitudes of 0.2 and 0.3 percent, respectively,
for the two Stokes parameters Px and Py.

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