Studying the presence of magnetic fields in a sample of high-mass X-ray binaries

2018/12/09 by Hubrig, Swetlana, Kholtygin, Alexander F., Sidoli, Lara +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.04479

Abstract

Previous circular polarization observations obtained with the ESO FOcal Reducer low dispersion spectrograpgh at the VLT in 2007-2008 revealed the presence of a weak longitudinal magnetic field on the surface of the optical component of the X-ray binary Cyg X-1, which contains a black hole and an O9.7Iab supergiant on a 5.6d orbit. In this contribution we report on recently acquired FORS2 spectropolarimetric observations of Cyg X-1 along with measurements of a few additional high-mass X-ray binaries.

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