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Both leptonic and hadronic emission processes may contribute to blazar jet emission; which dominates in blazars's high energy emission component remains an open question. Some intermediate synchrotron peaked blazars transition from their…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2022-06-01
Abel L. Peirson , Ioannis Liodakis , Roger W. Romani
We report the first $> 99\%$ confidence detection of X-ray polarization in BL Lacertae. During a recent X-ray/$\gamma$-ray outburst, a 287 ksec observation (2022 November 27-30) was taken using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer ({\it…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-07-04
Abel L. Peirson , Michela Negro , Ioannis Liodakis , Riccardo Middei , Dawoon E. Kim , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Luigi Pacciani , Roger W. Romani , Kinwah Wu , Alessandro Di Marco , Niccolo Di Lalla , Nicola Omodei , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Ivan Agudo , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , Francisco Jose Aceituno , Maria I. Bernardos , Giacomo Bonnoli , Victor Casanova , Maya Garcia-Comas , Beatriz Agis-Gonzalez , Cesar Husillos , Alessandro Marchini , Alfredo Sota , Carolina Casadio , Juan Escudero , Ioannis Myserlis , Albrecht Sievers , Mark Gurwell , Ramprasad Rao , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Whee Yeon Cheong , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Sincheol Kang , Sang-Hyun Kim , Sang-Sung Lee , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Nicolo Cibrario , Immacolata Donnarumma , Juri Poutanen , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Grzegorz Madejski , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Fabio Muleri , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane
Multifrequency polarimetry is emerging as a powerful probe of blazar jets, especially due to the advent of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory. We study the polarization of High-Synchrotron Peaked (HSP) blazars,…
Highly Significant Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Brightest Accreting Neutron Star Sco X-1
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) measured with high significance the X-ray polarization of the brightest Z-source Scorpius X-1, resulting in the nominal 2-8 keV energy band in a polarization degree of 1.0(0.2)% and a…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2024-01-25
Fabio La Monaca , Alessandro Di Marco , Juri Poutanen , Matteo Bachetti , Sara E. Motta , Alessandro Papitto , Maura Pilia , Fei Xie , Stefano Bianchi , Anna Bobrikova , Enrico Costa , Wei Deng , Mingyu Ge , Giulia Illiano , Shu-Mei Jia , Henric Krawczynski , Eleonora V. Lai , Kuan Liu , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Fabio Muleri , John Rankin , Paolo Soffitta , Alexandra Veledina , Filippo Ambrosino , Melania Del Santo , Wei Chen , Javier A. Garcia , Philip Kaaret , Thomas D. Russell , Wen-Hao Wei , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Chao Zuo , Zaven Arzoumanian , Massimo Cocchi , Andrea Gnarini , Ruben Farinelli , Keith C. Gendreau , Francesco Ursini , Martin C. Weisskopf , Silvia Zane , Ivan Agudo , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting J. Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashidadag , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Fre'de'ric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Stephen Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , George Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu
X-ray polarization should provide new probes of magnetic field geometry and acceleration physics near the base of blazar jets, but near-future missions will have limited sensitivity. We thus use existing lower energy data and X-ray…
We report the detection of high polarization in the first detailed optical linear polarization measurements on the BL Lac object CGRaBS J0211+1051, which flared in $\gamma$-rays on 2011 January 23 as reported by Fermi. The observations were…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2015-05-27
Sunil Chandra , Kiran S Baliyan , Shashikiran Ganesh , Umesh Joshi
We present X-ray polarimetry observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) of three low spectral peak and one intermediate spectral peak blazars, namely 3C 273, 3C 279, 3C 454.3, and S5 0716+714. For none of these objects…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-10-23
Herman L. Marshall , Ioannis Liodakis , Alan P. Marscher , Niccolo Di Lalla , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Dawoon E. Kim , Riccardo Middei , Michela Negro , Nicola Omodei , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Ivan Agudo , Giacomo Bonnoli , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , Immacolata Donnarumma , Laura Di Gesu , Jenni Jormanainen , Henric Krawczynski , Elina Lindfors , Frederic Marin , Francesco Massaro , Luigi Pacciani , Juri Poutanen , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Pouya M. Kouch , Francisco Jose Aceituno , Maria I. Bernardos , Giacomo Bonnoli , Victor Casanova , Maya Garcia-Comas , Beatriz Agis-Gonzalez , Cesar Husillos , Alessandro Marchini , Alfredo Sota , Dmitry Blinov , Ioakeim G. Bourbah , Sebastian Kielhmann , Evangelos Kontopodis , Nikos Mandarakas , Stylianos Romanopoulos , Raphael Skalidis , Anna Vervelaki , George A. Borman , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Sergey S. Savchenko , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Carolina Casadio , Juan Escudero , Joana Kramer , Ioannis Myserlis , Efthalia Trainou , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Joseph R. Masiero , Dimitri Mawet , Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Samaporn Tinyanont , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Masato Kagitani , Vadim Kravtsov , Takeshi Sakanoi , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chen-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovvciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. ODell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane
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
The X-ray polarization of Sco X-1 was measured for the first time with very high significance by the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE). A polarization degree of 1.0% $\pm$ 0.2% at a PA of 8{\deg} $\pm$ 6{\deg} at 90% confidence…
Polarimetric properties of blazars allow us to put constraints on the acceleration mechanisms that fuel their powerful jets. By studying the multiwavelength polarimetric behaviour of high synchrotron peaked (HSP) and low synchrotron peaked…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-08-21
Sara Capecchiacci , Ioannis Liodakis , Riccardo Middei , Dawoon E. Kim , Laura Di Gesu , Ivan Agudo , Beatriz Agis-Gonzalez , Axel Arbet-Engels , Dmitry Blinov , Chien-Ting Chen , Steven R. Ehlert , Ephraim Gau , Lea Heckmann , Kun Hu , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Pouya M. Kouch , Henric Krawczynski , Elina Lindfors , Frederic Marin , Alan P. Marscher , Ioannis Myserlis , Stephen L. O'Dell , Luigi Pacciani , David Paneque , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , M. Lynne Saade , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Allyn F. Tennant , Efthalia Traianou , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Francisco Jose Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Victor Casanova , Gabriel Emery , Juan Escudero , Daniel Morcuende , Jorge Otero-Santos , Alfredo Sota , Vilppu Piirola , George A. Borman , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Ekaterina V. Shishkina , Sergey S. Savchenko , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Tatiana S. Grishina , Ivan S. Troitskiy , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Callum McCall , Helen E. Jermak , Iain A. Steele , Rumen Bachev , Anton Strigachev , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Sumie Tochihara , Takahiro Akai , Hiroshi Akitaya , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Masato Kagitani , Vadim Kravtsov , Juri Poutanen , Takeshi Sakanoi , Diego Alvarez-Ortega , Carolina Casadio , Sincheol Kang , Sang-Sung Lee , Sanghyun Kim , Whee Yeon Cheong , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Chanwoo Song , Shan Li , Myeong-Seok Nam , Mark Gurwell , Garrett Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Petra Benke , Lena Debbrecht , Julia Eich , Florian Eppel , Andrea Gokus , Steven Hammerich , Jonas Hessdorfer , Matthias Kadler , Dana Kirchner , Georgios Filippos Paraschos , Florian Rosch , Wladislaw Schulga
The blazar 1ES 1959+650 was observed twice by BeppoSAX in September 2001 simultaneously with optical observations. We report here the X-ray data together with the optical, R_C magnitude, light curve since August 1995. The BeppoSAX…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-10
G. Tagliaferri , M. Ravasio , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , P. Giommi , E. Massaro , R. Nesci , G. Tosti
We study a flaring activity of the HSP Mrk421 that was characterized from radio to very-high-energy (VHE; E $>0.1$TeV) gamma rays with MAGIC, Fermi-LAT, Swift, XMM-Newton and several optical and radio telescopes. These observations…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-09-03
MAGIC Collaboration , K. Abe , S. Abe , J. Abhir , A. Abhishek , V. A. Acciari , A. Aguasca-Cabot , I. Agudo , T. Aniello , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , A. Arbet Engels , C. Arcaro , K. Asano , A. Babić , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , L. Barrios-Jiménez , I. Batković , J. Baxter , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , E. Bernardini , J. Bernete , A. Berti , J. Besenrieder , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , O. Blanch , G. Bonnoli , Ž. Bošnjak , E. Bronzini , I. Burelli , A. Campoy-Ordaz , A. Carosi , R. Carosi , M. Carretero-Castrillo , A. J. Castro-Tirado , D. Cerasole , G. Ceribella , Y. Chai , A. Chilingarian , A. Cifuentes , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , F. D'Ammando , G. D'Amico , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , R. de Menezes , M. Delfino , J. Delgado , C. Delgado Mendez , F. Di Pierro , R. Di Tria , L. Di Venere , A. Dinesh , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , L. Eisenberger , D. Elsaesser , J. Escudero , L. Fariña , L. Foffano , L. Font , S. Fröse , Y. Fukazawa , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , S. Gasparyan , M. Gaug , J. G. Giesbrecht Paiva , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , P. Gliwny , N. Godinović , T. Gradetzke , R. Grau , D. Green , J. G. Green , P. Günther , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , T. Hassan , L. Heckmann , J. Herrera Llorente , D. Hrupec , R. Imazawa , D. Israyelyan , T. Itokawa , I. Jiménez Martínez , J. Jiménez Quiles , J. Jormanainen , S. Kankkunen , T. Kayanoki , D. Kerszberg , M. Khachatryan , G. W. Kluge , Y. Kobayashi , J. Konrad , P. M. Kouch , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , M. Láinez , A. Lamastra , E. Lindfors , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , R. López-Coto , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , A. Lorini , E. Lyard , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , K. Mannheim , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , P. Maruševec , A. Mas-Aguilar , D. Mazin , S. Menchiari , S. Mender , D. Miceli , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , M. Molero González , E. Molina , H. A. Mondal , A. Moralejo , T. Nakamori , C. Nanci , V. Neustroev , L. Nickel , M. Nievas Rosillo , C. Nigro , L. Nikolić , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , T. Njoh Ekoume , K. Noda , S. Nozaki , A. Okumura , S. Paiano , D. Paneque , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , M. Peresano , M. Persic , M. Pihet , G. Pirola , F. Podobnik , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , G. Principe , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , C. Righi , N. Sahakyan , T. Saito , F. G. Saturni , F. Schmuckermaier , J. L. Schubert , A. Sciaccaluga , G. Silvestri , J. Sitarek , V. Sliusar , D. Sobczynska , A. Stamerra , J. Strišković , D. Strom , M. Strzys , Y. Suda , H. Tajima , M. Takahashi , R. Takeishi , P. Temnikov , K. Terauchi , T. Terzić , M. Teshima , S. Truzzi , A. Tutone , S. Ubach , J. van Scherpenberg , S. Ventura , G. Verna , I. Viale , A. Vigliano , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , I. Vovk , R. Walter , F. Wersig , M. Will , T. Yamamoto , P. K. H. Yeung , I. Liodakis , R. Middei , S. Kiehlmann , L. D. Gesu , D. E. Kim , S. R. Ehlert , M. L. Saade , P. Kaaret , W. P. Maksym , C. T. Chen , I. De La Calle Pérez , M. Perri , F. Verrecchia , O. Domann , S. Dürr , M. Feige , M. Heidemann , O. Koppitz , G. Manhalter , D. Reinhart , R. Steineke , C. Lorey , C. McCall , H. E. Jermak , I. A. Steele , V. Fallah Ramazani , J. Otero-Santos , D. Morcuende , F. J. Aceituno , V. Casanova , A. Sota , S. G. Jorstad , A. P. Marscher , C. Pauley , M. Sasada , Y. Fukazawa , K. S. Kawabata , M. Uemura , T. Mizuno , T. Nakaoka , H. Akitaya , I. Myserlis , M. Gurwell , G. K. Keating , R. Rao , E. Angelakis , A. Kraus
Magnetars are the most strongly magnetized neutron stars, and one of the most promising targets for X-ray polarimetric measurements. We present here the first Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observation of the magnetar 1RXS…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-02-22
Silvia Zane , Roberto Taverna , Denis Gonzalez Caniulef , Fabio Muleri , Roberto Turolla , Jeremy Heyl , Keisuke Uchiyama , Mason Ng , Toru Tamagawa , Ilaria Caiazzo , Niccolo' Di Lalla , Herman L. Marshall , Matteo Bachetti , Fabio La Monaca , Ephraim Gau , Alessandro Di Marco , Luca Baldini , Michela Negro , Nicola Omodei , John Rankin , Giorgio Matt , George G. Pavlov , Takao Kitaguchi , Henric Krawczynski , Fabian Kislat , Ruth Kelly , Ivan Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo' Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chieng Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , C. Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce Rollins , Pierre Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro' , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observed for the first time highly polarized X-ray emission from the magnetar 1E 1841-045, targeted after a burst-active phase in August 2024. To date, IXPE has observed four other magnetars…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-03-03
Michela Rigoselli , Roberto Taverna , Sandro Mereghetti , Roberto Turolla , Gian Luca Israel , Silvia Zane , Lorenzo Marra , Fabio Muleri , Alice Borghese , Francesco Coti Zelati , Davide De Grandis , Matteo Imbrogno , Ruth M. E. Kelly , Paolo Esposito , Nanda Rea
X-ray polarization measurable with the imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (\textit{IXPE}) could constrain the long-debated leptonic versus hadronic origin of the high-energy component in the broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-09-23
Athira M Bharathan , C S Stalin , Sunder Sahayanathan , Blesson Mathew
We report on IXPE, NICER and XMM-Newton observations of the magnetar 1E 2259+586. We find that the source is significantly polarized at about or above 20% for all phases except for the secondary peak where it is more weakly polarized. The…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-11-08
Jeremy Heyl , Roberto Taverna , Roberto Turolla , Gian Luca Israel , Mason Ng , Demet Kirmizibayrak , Denis González-Caniulef , Ilaria Caiazzo , Silvia Zane , Steven R. Ehlert , Michela Negro , Iván Agudo , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel Lawrence Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie
A detailed analysis of the optical polarimetric variability of the TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650 from 2007 October 18 to 2011 May 5 is presented. The source showed a maximum and minimum brightness states in the R-band of 14.08$\pm$0.03 mag and…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2015-06-15
Marco Sorcia , Erika Benítez , David Hiriart , José M. López , José I. Cabrera , Raúl Mújica , Jochen Heidt , Ivan Agudo , Kari Nilsson , Michael Mommert
The extreme TeV blazar 1ES 0229+200 is a high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object. It has not shown intraday variability in extensive optical and X-ray observations. Nor has it shown any significant variability on any measurable timescale…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2024-04-23
Shubham Kishore , Alok C. Gupta , Paul J. Wiita , S. N. Tiwari
We report on an X-ray polarimetric observation of the high-mass X-ray binary LMC X-1 in the high/soft state, obtained by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in October 2022. The measured polarization is below the minimum…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-10-10
Jakub Podgorny , Lorenzo Marra , Fabio Muleri , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , Ajay Ratheesh , Michal Dovciak , Romana Mikusincova , Maimouna Brigitte , James F. Steiner , Alexandra Veledina , Stefano Bianchi , Henric Krawczynski , Jiri Svoboda , Philip Kaaret , Giorgio Matt , Javier A. Garcia , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Alexander A. Lutovinov , Andrey N. Semena , Alessandro Di Marco , Michela Negro , Martin C. Weisskopf , Adam Ingram , Juri Poutanen , Banfsheh Beheshtipour , Sohee Chun , Kun Hu , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Zhang Sixuan , Francesco Tombesi , Silvia Zane , Ivan Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolo Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Doug A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie
We present results from simultaneous X-ray polarimetric and spectroscopic observations of the bright neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Cyg X-2, performed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and the Nuclear Spectroscopic…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2026-01-21
Andrea Gnarini , Swati Ravi , Philip Kaaret , Anna Bobrikova , Juri Poutanen , Sofia V. Forsblom , Francesco Ursini , Maria Cristina Baglio , Stefano Bianchi , Fiamma Capitanio , Massimo Cocchi , Maria Alejandra Diaz Teodori , Sergio Fabiani , Ruben Farinelli , Giorgio Matt , Mason Ng , Alexander Salganik , Paolo Soffitta , Antonella Tarana , Silvia Zane