The many tones of accretion - to the memory of Tomaso Belloni

X-ray polarimetric view of X-ray binaries

10 Sept 2026, 15:30

30m

Cefalù

Talk Beyond Stellar-Mass BHs & New Windows. Session 4.4: Polarimetry

Speaker

Alexandra Veledina (University of Turku)

Description

I will review the first results of X-ray polarimetry in accreting X-ray binary systems, focusing on the puzzles and challenges to the models of accretion they posed, along with potential ways towards the solutions.