Zoom Event: Observations of Black Hole X-Ray Binaries with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Upcoming and Proposed Balloon-Borne Astroparticle Experiments
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Astronomy
- Location
- Extra Space available in 134 Astronomy Building
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Mar 26, 2024 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- Speaker
- Henric Krawczynski
- Contact
- Daniel Franco
- danielf9@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-300-6769
- Views
- 121
- Originating Calendar
- Astronomy Colloquium Speaker Calendar
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The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a joint US-Italian mission that enables highly sensitive polarimetry observations of bright galactic and extragalactic sources within the 2-8 keV X-ray band. In this talk, I will highlight the IXPE observations of stellar mass black holes in X-ray binaries and the implications of the observations. I will close by describing two upcoming missions, one aiming at measuring X-ray polarization at higher energies (15-80 keV), and another one aiming at elucidating the origin of the 511 keV gamma-ray emission from the center of the Milky Way.