期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 501, 期 1, 页码 109-128出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3428
关键词
accretion, accretion discs; polarization; relativistic processes; scattering; X-rays: binaries; pulsars: general
资金
- NSERC Canada
- Compute Canada
- Burke Fellowship at Caltech
- Four-Year Fellowship at UBC
The development of X-ray polarimetry in high-energy astronomy will provide new insights into the emission mechanisms of accreting X-ray pulsars, requiring sound theoretical models as a basis.
A new window is opening in high-energy astronomy: X-ray polarimetry. With many missions currently under development and scheduled to launch as early as 2021, observations of the X-ray polarization of accreting X-ray pulsars will soon be available. As polarization is particularly sensitive to the geometry of the emission region, the upcoming polarimeters will shed new light on the emission mechanism of these objects, provided that we have sound theoretical models that agree with current spectroscopic and timing observation and that can make predictions of the polarization parameters of the emission. We here present a new model for the polarized emission of accreting X-ray pulsars in the accretion column scenario that for the first time takes into account the macroscopic structure and dynamics of the accretion region and the propagation of the radiation towards the observer, including relativistic beaming, gravitational lensing, and quantum electrodynamics. In this paper, we present all the details of the model, while in a companion paper, we apply our model to predict the polarization parameters of the bright X-ray pulsar Hercules X-1.
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