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  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietySee Also: Volume 378 Issue 3, Pages 1111 - 1117 Published Online: 31 May 2007 Journal compilation © 2010 RAS A Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 259K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  A highly polarized radio jet during the 1998 outburst of the black hole transient XTE J1748–288 Copyright 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2007 RAS KEYWORDS accretion, accretion discs • stars: individual: XTE J1748−288 • ISM: jets and outflows • X-rays: binaries ABSTRACTXTE J1748−288 is a black hole X-ray transient which went into outburst in 1998 June. The X-ray light curves showed canonical morphologies, with minor variations on the 'fast rise exponential decay' profile. The radio source, however, reached an unusually high flux density of over 600 mJy. This high radio flux was accompanied by an exceptional (>20 per cent) fractional linear polarization, the variability of which was anticorrelated with the flux density. We use this variability to discuss possible depolarization mechanisms and to predict the underlying behaviour of the (unresolved) core/jet components. Accepted 2007 April 11. Received 2007 March 28; in original form 2006 November 6 | 
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