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Observations show that the X-ray emission of the accreting weakly magnetized neutron stars is polarized. Here, we develop a theoretical model, where we assume the emission of the accreting neutron star coming from the spreading layer, the…

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Phase-resolved spectral and spectropolarimetric X-ray observations of magnetars present us with the opportunity to test models of the origin of the X-ray emission from these objects, and to constrain the properties of the neutron star…

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Searching for neutrino emission from hard X-ray sources with IceCube

The IceCube neutrino observatory, a cubic-kilometer particle detector at the South Pole, first announced the discovery of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range in 2013, followed in 2017 by the detection of a…

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Polarised light from accreting low mass X-ray binaries

Thanks to IXPE , the X-ray spectro-polarimeter launched at the end of 2021, X-ray polarimetry has finally become an extraordinary tool in investigating the physics of accretion in low mass X-ray binaries. Similarly to what happened with…

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The Mysterious Magnetospheres of Magnetars

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White Paper on GEMS Study of Polarized X-rays from Neutron Stars

We examine the expected X-ray polarization properties of neutron-star X-ray sources of various types, e.g., accretion and rotation powered pulsars, magnetars, and low-mass X-ray binaries. We summarize the model calculations leading to these…

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First detection of X-ray polarization from the long-period X-ray pulsar 4U 1954+319

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X-ray and Radio Campaign of the Z-source GX 340+0 II: the X-ray polarization in the normal branch

We present the first X-ray polarization measurement of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z-source, GX 340$+$0, in the normal branch (NB) using a 200 ks observation with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetric Explorer (IXPE). This…

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Modelling polarized X-ray pulses from accreting millisecond pulsars with X-PSI, using different hot spot locations and shapes

We present an analysis of polarized X-ray pulses based on simulated data for accreting millisecond pulsars (AMPs). We used the open-source X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference code (previously applied to NICER observations), which we…

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First characterization of the emission behavior of Mrk421 from radio to VHE gamma rays with simultaneous X-ray polarization measurements

We perform the first broadband study of Mrk421 from radio to TeV gamma rays with simultaneous measurements of the X-ray polarization from IXPE. The data were collected within an extensive multiwavelength campaign organized between May and…

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The X-Ray Polarization Signature of Quiescent Magnetars: Effect of Magnetospheric Scattering and Vacuum Polarization

In the magnetar model, the quiescent non-thermal soft X-ray emission from Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft-Gamma Repeaters is thought to arise from resonant comptonization of thermal photons by charges moving in a twisted magnetosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Rodrigo Fernández , Shane W. Davis

Insights from the first flaring activity of a high-synchrotron-peaked blazar with X-ray polarization and VHE gamma rays

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…

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The First X-Ray Polarimetry of an Eclipsing Low-Mass X-Ray Binary: Serendipitous IXPE Observation of AX J1745.6-2901

We present the first X-ray polarimetric measurement of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary system AX J1745.6-2901 conducted by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite. This transient source, located within $ \sim $1.5' of…

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X-ray spectro-polarimetry analysis of the weakly magnetized neutron star X-ray binary GX 9+1

We present an X-ray spectro-polarimetric study of the weakly magnetized neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 9+1, utilizing data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), alongside simultaneous NuSTAR, NICER, and INTEGRAL…

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ESA Voyage 2050 white paper: A Polarized View of the Hot and Violent Universe

Since the birth of X-ray Astronomy, spectacular advances have been seen in the imaging, spectroscopic and timing studies of the hot and violent X-ray Universe, and further leaps forward are expected in the future. On the other hand,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Paolo Soffitta , Niccolò Bucciantini , Eugene Churazov , Enrico Costa , Michal Dovciak , Hua Feng , Jeremy Heyl , Adam Ingram , Keith Jahoda , Philip Kaaret , Timothy Kallman , Vladimir Karas , Ildar Khabibullin , Henric Krawczynski , Julien Malzac , Frederic Marin , Herman Marshall , Giorgio Matt , Fabio Muleri , Carole Mundell , Mark Pearce , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Juri Poutanen , Roger Romani , Andrea Santangelo , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Roberto Taverna , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Silvia Zane

The IXPE and multifrequency polarimetric view of the extreme blazars 1ES 1101-232 and RGB J0710+591

Multiwavelength polarimetry is a powerful tool to probe magnetic field and flow geometries in the relativistic jets of blazars. In this respect, particularly interesting are the sources whose synchrotron emission covers a broad range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Fabrizio Tavecchio , Dawoon E. Kim , Gabriel Emery , Ioannis Liodakis , Iván Agudo , Paolo Coppi , Giampiero Tagliaferri , Laura Di Gesu , Tullia Sbarrato , Lucia Ballo , Alberto Sciaccaluga , Steven R. Ehlert , Giacomo Bonnoli , Francisco José Aceituno , Carolina Casadio , Víctor Casanova , Immacolata Donnarumma , Juan Escudero , Daniel Morcuende , Jorge Otero-Santos , Alfredo Sota , Vilppu Piirola , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , Kari Nilsson , Ioannis Myserlis , Mark Gurwell , Garrett Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Sumie Tochihara , Takahiro Akai , Hiroshi Akitaya , Rumen Bachev , Anton Strigachev , Petra Benke , Lena Debbrecht , Julia Eich , Florian Eppel , Andrea Gokus , Steven Hämmerich , Jonas Heßdörfer , Matthias Kadler , Sanghyun Kim , Dana Kirchner , Georgios Filippos Paraschos , Florian Rösch , Wladislaw Schulga

Resonant Inverse Compton Scattering and Hard X-ray Emission in Magnetar Magnetospheres

Magnetars are a subclass of neutron stars with ultra-strong surface magnetic fields. Some magnetars exhibit persistent hard X-ray emission, characterized by power-law tails with photon indices around 1--1.5, extending from ${\sim}$10 keV to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Kun Hu , Nicholas Rackers , Alexander Y. Chen

Analysis of Crab X-ray Polarization using Deeper IXPE Observations

We present Crab X-ray polarization measurements using IXPE data with a total exposure of 300ks, three times more than the initial 2022 discovery paper. Polarization is detected in three times more pulsar phase bins, revealing an S-shaped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-18 Josephine Wong , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Niccoló Bucciantini , Roger W. Romani , Yi-Jung Yang , Kuan Liu , Wei Deng , Kazuho Goya , Fei Xie , Maura Pilia , Philip Kaaret , Martin C. Weisskopf , Stefano Silvestri , C. -Y. Ng , Chien-Ting Chen , Iván Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccoló Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , 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 , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel Lawrence Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Carmelo Sgró , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

No Clear Correlation between X-ray Spectral Properties and Polarization for High Synchrotron Peaked Blazars

IXPE has enabled the X-ray polarizations of many blazars to be measured. We analyze X-ray spectropolarimetric data for all high synchrotron peaked blazars observations published by the IXPE team. We find that there are no statistically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 M. Lynne Saade , Steven Ehlert , Ioannis Liodakis , Philip Kaaret , Fabrizio Tavecchio