Making the Invisible Visible: Magnetic Fields in Accretion Flows Revealed by X-Ray Polarization
Samuel Barnier and Chris Done 2024 ApJ 977 201 Sensitive X-ray polarization measurements from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer challenge the idea that black hole accretion flows typically have…
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