The First Detection of X-Ray Polarization in a Newly Discovered Galactic Transient Swift J151857.0-572147
Santanu Mondal et al 2024 ApJ 975 257 The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer has made yet another first polarization measurement of an object, finding a low polarization degree that could be…
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