4 papers
White Paper for Blazar Observations with a GEMS-like X-ray Polarimetry Mission
Henric Krawczynski, Lorella Angelini, Matthew Baring +27
In this document, we describe the scientific potential of blazar observations with a X-ray polarimetry mission like GEMS (Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX). We describe five blaz…
White Paper on GEMS Study of Polarized X-rays from Neutron Stars
Pranab Ghosh, Lorella Angelini, Matthew Baring +27
We examine the expected X-ray polarization properties of neutron-star X-ray sources of various types, e.g., accretion and rotation powered pulsars, magnetars, and low-mass X-ray bi…
X-ray Polarization from Black Holes: GEMS Scientific White Paper
Jeremy Schnittman, Lorella Angelini, Matthew Baring +27
We present here a summary of the scientific goals behind the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX (GEMS) X-ray polarimetry mission's black hole (BH) observing program. The primary ta…
Collective Properties of X-ray Binary Populations of Galaxies III. The Low-mass X-ray Binary Luminosity Function
Harshal Bhadkamkar, Pranab Ghosh
Continuing our exploration of the collective properties of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in the stellar fields of normal galaxies, we compute in this paper the expected X-ray lum…