Hard X-ray spectro-polarimetry of Black Hole sources

A. R. Rao*
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai, India

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Abstract

We emphasise the need of a precise hard X-ray spectroscopy, including polarimetry, to decouple the accretion disk and jet contribution in black hole sources across mass scales: X-ray binaries, Gamma-ray bursts and Active Galactic Nuclei. The expected results from CZT-Imager of Astrosat will be discussed along with the prospect of hard X-ray polarimetry.

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Keywords : black hole physics – accretion – techniques: polarimetric – X-rays: binaries