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Dramatic Drop in the X-Ray Polarization of Swift J1727.8โ€“1613 in the Soft Spectral State

Dramatic Drop in the X-Ray Polarization of Swift J1727.8โ€“1613 in the Soft Spectral State

Abstract Black hole X-ray binaries exhibit different spectral and timing properties in different accretion states. The X-ray outburst of a recently discovered and extraordinarily bright source, Swift J1727.8โ€“1613, has enabled the first investigation of how the X-ray polarization properties of a source evolve with spectral state. The 2โ€“8 keV polarization โ€ฆ