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The polarization of X-ray emission is a unique tool used to investigate the magnetic field structure around astrophysical objects. In this paper, we study the linear polarization of X-ray emissions from gamma-ray binary systems based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Xingxing Hu , Jumpei Takata

We investigate the temporal variability of polarization of synchrotron radiation from blazar jets. Multiwavelength observations revealed high-amplitude rotations of the electric vector position angle (EVPA), both in the optical and in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Filippo Bolis , Emanuele Sobacchi , Fabrizio Tavecchio

Radio interferometric observations of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets reveal the significant linear polarization of their synchrotron radiation that changes with frequency due to the Faraday rotation. It is generally assumed that such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-06 E. Yushkov , I. N. Pashchenko , D. D. Sokoloff , G. Chumarin

Polarization observations provide a unique way to probe the nature of jet magnetic fields in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Currently, some GRBs have been detected to be polarized in their early optical afterglows. However, the measured…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-26 Bao-Quan Huang , Tong Liu , Guo-Yu Li

The polarimetric measurement on the prompt phase of GRB 100826A shows that the polarization angle changes $\sim 90^{\circ}$ between two adjacent time intervals. We will show that this phenomenon can be naturally interpreted in the framework…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Hai-Nan Lin

The rotations of the polarization angle (PA) with time (energy) can lead to the depolarization of the time-integrated (energy-integrated) polarization. However, we don't know how and when it will rotate. Here, we consider the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-30 Hao-Bing Wang , Mi-Xiang Lan

We considered a model for the prompt phase of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) emission arising from a magnetized jet undergoing gradual energy dissipation due to magnetic reconnection. The dissipated magnetic energy is translated to bulk kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios

Observations by the {\RHESSI} satellite of large polarization of the prompt $\gamma$-ray emission from the Gamma Ray Burst GRB021206 \citep{coburn03} imply that the magnetic field coherence scale is larger than the size of the visible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim Lyutikov , V. I. Pariev , Roger Blandford

Millimeter-band polarimetry offers a powerful probe of AGN jets, accessing regions less affected by opacity and Faraday rotation than at longer radio wavelengths. As part of the POLAMI program, we have conducted 14 years of 1 mm and 3 mm…

The degree and the temporal evolution of linear polarization in the prompt and afterglow emission of gamma-ray bursts is a very robust diagnostic of some key features of gamma-ray bursts jets and their micro and macro physics. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Davide Lazzati

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered by ultra-relativistic jets. The launching sites of these jets are surrounded by dense media, which the jets must cross before they can accelerate and release the high energy emission. Interaction with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Gal Birenbaum , Ramandeep Gill , Omer Bromberg , Paz Beniamini , Jonathan Granot

(Abridged) We consider the polarization properties of optically thin synchrotron radiation emitted by relativistically moving electron--positron jets carrying large-scale helical magnetic fields. In our model, the jet is cylindrical, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maxim Lyutikov , Vladimir I. Pariev , Denise C. Gabuzda

We present a detailed analysis of time- and energy-dependent synchrotron polarization signatures in a shock-in-jet model for gamma-ray blazars. Our calculations employ a full 3D radiation transfer code, assuming a helical magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Haocheng Zhang , Xuhui Chen , Markus Boettcher

Previous studies have considered synchrotron as the emission mechanism for prompt Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). These works have shown that the electrons must cool on a timescale comparable to the dynamic time at the source in order to satisfy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Paz Beniamini , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

The relativistic plasma jets from a misaligned black hole-accretion disk system will not be axially symmetric. Here we analyze nonaxisymmetric, stationary, translation invariant jets in the force-free approximation where the field energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Samuel E. Gralla , Ted Jacobson

Relativistic jets are collimated outflows with speeds close to light speed, which are associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and so on. This article mainly overviews recent developments of polarimetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-28 Kenji Toma

The magnetic field structure in GRB outflows is of great interest as it can provide valuable clues that can help pin down the mechanism responsible for the acceleration and collimation of GRB jets. The most promising way of probing it is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan Granot , Gregory B. Taylor

As we further our studies on Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), both on theoretical models and observational tools, more and more options begin to open for exploration of its physical properties. As transient events primarily dominated by synchrotron…

The multi-window observations, including the light curve and the evolutions of the spectral peak energy ($E_p$), the polarization degree (PD) and the polarization angle (PA), are used to infer the model parameters to predict the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Xu Wang , Mi-Xiang Lan , Qing-Wen Tang , Xue-Feng Wu , Zi-Gao Dai

Synchrotron emission polarization is very sensitive to the magnetic field configuration. Recently, polarization of synchrotron emission with a mixed (SM) magnetic field in Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow phase had been developed. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Mi-Xiang Lan , Xue-Feng Wu , Zi-Gao Dai