Wai Ling Wu

The First X-Ray Polarimetry of the Typical Accretion Disk Corona Source 4U 1822-37

Abstract We report the first Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations of the typical accretion disk corona (ADC) source 4U 1822-37, covering 44 orbital cycles, together with simultaneous Swift-XRT data. The polarization degree (PD) of this source is found to be high...