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We present the expected X-ray polarization signal resulting from distant reprocessing material around black holes. Using a central isotropic power-law emission at the center of the simulated model, we add distant equatorial and axially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Jakub Podgorný , Frédéric Marin , Michal Dovčiak

We present spectroscopy of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) observed at infrared wavelengths from 10 - 40 micron with the Spitzer Space Telescope and at millimeter wavelengths in 12CO and 13CO J = 2 - 1 (230 and 220 GHz) with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Charles D. Kilpatrick , John H. Bieging , George H. Rieke

This work presents a new detailed study on the energy-dependent variation in the X-ray polarisation of the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), obtained using data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). For the entire PWN, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 Wenhao Wei , Fei Xie , Fabio La Monaca , Wei Deng , Mingyu Ge , Kuan Liu , Chao Zuo , Wei Chen

We present full-polarization observations of the compact, steep-spectrum radio quasar 3C~286 made with the ALMA at 1.3~mm. These are the first full-polarization ALMA observations, which were obtained in the framework of Science…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-29 H. Nagai , K. Nakanishi , R. Paladino , C. L. H. Hull , P. Cortes , G. Moellenbrock , E. Fomalont , K. Asada , K. Hada

X-ray polarization from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) provides an important new probe of the geometry of the pulsar emission zone and of particle acceleration in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula (PWN). However, with IXPE's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Josephine Wong , Roger W. Romani , Jack T. Dinsmore

The launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), the first space-based polarimeter since 1978, offers a two order of magnitude improvement to the measurement of X-ray polarisation than its predecessor OSO-8, offering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Melissa Ewing , Adam Ingram , John Rankin , Fabio Muleri

We report on a nine-month monitoring campaign of the blazar PG 1553+113, relying on three observations carried out in 2025 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and supported by multi-wavelength facilities. The source displayed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Riccardo Middei , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Alan P. Marscher , Ioannis Liodakis , Matteo Perri , Alessandro Maselli , Stefano Ciprini , Emanuele Nardini , Simonetta Puccetti , Laura Di Gesu , Iván Agudo , Dawoon E. Kim , Ioannis Myserlis , A. Trindade Falcão , D. Ł. Król , Lucio A. Antonelli , Tommaso Aniello , Pouya M. Kouch , Kari Nilsson , Elina Lindfors , Tapio Pursimo , Francisco José Aceituno , Víctor Casanova , Gabriel Emery , Juan Escudero Pedrosa , Jorge Otero-Santos , Alfredo Sota , Vilppu Piirola , George A. Borman , Tatiana S. Grishina , Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Sergey S. Savchenko , Ekaterina V. Shishkina , Ivan S. Troitskiy , Yulia V. Troitskaya , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Petra Benke , Lena Debbrecht , Julia Eich , Florian Eppel , Andrea Gokus , Steven Hämmerich , Jonas Heßdörfer , Matthias Kadler , Dana Kirchner , Georgios F. Paraschos , Florian Rösch , Wladislaw Schulga , Mark Gurwell , Garrett Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Beatriz Agís-González , Dmitry Blinov , Anastasia Glykopoulou , Sara Capecchiacci , Alberto Floris , Panagiotis Fotis , Alkmini Koukoutsi , John A. Kypriotakis , Dimitrios A. Langis , Dimitrios Rompogiannakis , Aristeidis Polychronakis , Vasiliki Tsioupli , Stavros Vogiatzis , Orestis Zoumpoulakis , Sumie Tochihara , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Takahiro Akai

We present high-resolution X-ray spectra from the young supernova remnant Cas A using a 70-ks observation taken by the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS). Line emission, dominated by Si and S ions, is used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. S. Lazendic , D. Dewey , N. S. Schulz , C. R. Canizares

In many polarimetry applications, including observations in the X-ray band, the measurement of a polarization signal can be reduced to the detection and quantification of a deviation from uniformity of a distribution of measured angles. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Tod E. Strohmayer , Tim R. Kallman

We present high spatial resolution X-ray spectroscopy of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with the {\sl Chandra} observations. The X-ray emitting region of this remnant was divided into 38 $\times$ 34 pixels with a scale of 10$\arcsec$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xue-juan Yang , Fang-jun Lu , Li Chen

We report a comprehensive spectro-polarimetric study of the black hole binary LMC X$-3$ using simultaneous {\it IXPE}, {\it NICER} and {\it NuSTAR} observations in 0.5$-$20 keV energy band. The broad-band energy spectrum (0.5$-$20 keV) with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-06 Seshadri Majumder , Ankur Kushwaha , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi

Recent Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations of blazars tend to support the shock model for the X-ray emission, but report a low polarization degree ($\Pi\sim 10\%$) in X-rays compared with the previous theoretical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Hao-Qiang Zhang , Da-Bin Lin , Kuan Liu , En-Wei Liang

In this paper, we present a full spatially resolved polarization map for the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) observed by IXPE. By employing effective background discrimination techniques, our results show a remarkably high degree of local…

Magnetars are now known to be among the most strongly polarized celestial sources in X-rays. Here we report on the $500\,\mathrm{ks}$ observation of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 performed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in…

The X-ray Polarization Probe (XPP) is a second generation X-ray polarimeter following up on the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The XPP will offer true broadband polarimetery over the wide 0.2-60 keV bandpass in addition to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 Keith Jahoda , Henric Krawczynski , Fabian Kislat , Herman Marshall , Takashi Okajima , Ivan Agudo , Lorella Angelini , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Matthew Baring , Wayne Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Niccolo Bucciantini , Ilaria Caiazzo , Fiamma Capitanio , Paolo Coppi , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Jason Dexter , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolo Di Lalla , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Felix Fuerst , Alan Garner , Pranab Ghosh , Denis Gonzalez-Caniulef , Victoria Grinberg , Shuichi Gunji , Dieter Hartman , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Joanne Hill , Adam Ingram , Wataru Buz Iwakiri , Svetlana Jorstad , Phil Kaaret , Timothy Kallman , Vladimir Karas , Ildar Khabibullin , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeff Kolodziejczak , Chryssa Kouveliotou , Yannis Liodakis , Thomas Maccarone , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Craig Markwardt , Alan Marscher , Giorgio Matt , Mark McConnell , Jon Miller , Ikuyuki Mitsubishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alexander Mushtukov , Stephen Ng , Michael Nowak , Steve O'Dell , Alessandro Papitto , Dheeraj Pasham , Mark Pearce , Lawrence Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Simonetta Puccetti , Tuomo Salmi , Kevin Shi , Paolo Soffita , Gloria Spandre , Jack Steiner , Tod Strohmayer , Valery Suleimanov , Jiri Svoboda , Jean Swank , Toru Tamagawa , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Roberto Taverna , John Tomsick , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Joern Wilms , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , George Younes , Alessandra Zaino , Anna Zajczyk , Silvia Zane , Andrzej Zdziarski , Haocheng Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Ping Zhou

We present modelling of X-ray polarisation spectra emerging from the two competing scenarios that are proposed to explain the broad Fe K{\alpha} line in the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15. The polarisation signature of complex absorption is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Marin , R. W. Goosmann , M. Dovciak , F. Muleri , D. Porquet , N. Grosso , V. Karas , G. Matt

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer is an X-ray observatory measuring the X-ray polarization in the 2-8 keV energy range. Highly sensitive to the system's geometry, X-ray polarization is a unique method to probe the structure of X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 M. Brigitte , J. Svoboda

The high-energy emission ($400$ keV $- 2$ MeV) of Cygnus X-1 --the most well-studied Galactic black hole-- was recently found to be strongly polarized. The origin of this radiation is still unknown. In this work, we suggest that it is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Florencia L. Vieyro , Gustavo E. Romero , Sylvain Chaty

We explore correlations between visual extinction and polarization along the western side of the IRAS Vela Shell using a published polarimetric catalog of several hundreds of objects. Our extinction maps along this ionization front…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Pereyra , A. M. Magalhães

The Gas Pixel Detector is a gas detector, sensitive to the polarization of X-rays, currently flying on-board IXPE - the first observatory dedicated to X-ray polarimetry. It detects X-rays and their polarization by imaging the ionization…

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