Related papers: X-ray polarization from magnetar sources

X-ray and optical polarization aligned with the radio jet ejecta in GX 339-4

We present the first X-ray polarization measurements of GX 339-4. IXPE observed this source twice during its 2023-2024 outburst, once in the soft-intermediate state and again during a soft state. The observation taken during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 G. Mastroserio , B. De Marco , M. C. Baglio , F. Carotenuto , S. Fabiani , T. D. Russell , F. Capitanio , Y. Cavecchi , S. Motta , D. M. Russell , M. Dovciak , M. Del Santo , K. Alabarta , A. Ambrifi , S. Campana , P. Casella , S. Covino , G. Illiano , E. Kara , E. V. Lai , G. Lodato , A. Manca , I. Mariani , A. Marino , C. Miceli , P. Saikia , A. W. Shaw , J. Svoboda , F. M. Vincentelli , J. Wang

The Magnetic Field of the Ultraluminous X-ray Pulsar M82 X-2

Pulsations were recently detected from the ultraluminous X-ray source X-2 in M82. The newly discovered pulsar has been described as a common neutron star with a 1 TG magnetic field that accretes above the Eddington rate and as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Dimitris M. Christodoulou , Silas G. T. Laycock , Demosthenes Kazanas

Pulsed {\gamma}-ray emission from magnetar 1E 2259+586

Anomalous x-ray pulsars (AXPs) are thought to be magnetars which are young isolated neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields of > 10^14Gauss. Their tremendous magnetic fields inferred from the spin parameters provide a huge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. H. K. Wu , C. Y. Hui , R. H. H. Huang , A. K. H. Kong , K. S. Cheng , J. Takata , P. H. T. Tam , E. M. H. Wu , C. -Y. Liu

Unlocking the Future of X-Ray Polarimetry with IXPE: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

This paper discusses issues encountered during the early development of the instrument on the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA ASI Small Explorer mission launched on 9 December 2021. IXPE has observed about 100 sources,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Paolo Soffitta , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Alessandro Di Marco , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Fabio La Monaca , Fabio Muleri , Alda Rubini , Alessio Trois

X-ray Polarization and Spectral Variations in an Extreme High-Synchrotron-Peaked Blazar 1ES 1101--232

We present the first X-ray polarimetric observation of the extreme high-synchrotron-peaked blazar 1ES 1101--232, conducted by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The data analysis incorporates simultaneous and quasi-simultaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Xin-Ke Hu , Jin Zhang , Fei Xie , Xiang-Gao Wang

Discovery of a variable energy-dependent X-ray polarization in the accreting neutron star GX 5-1

We report on the coordinated observations of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary (NS-LMXB) \gx in X-rays (IXPE, NICER, Nustar and INTEGRAL), optical (REM and LCO), near-infrared (REM), mid-infrared (VLT VISIR), and radio (ATCA). This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Sergio Fabiani , Fiamma Capitanio , Rosario Iaria , Juri Poutanen , Andrea Gnarini , Francesco Ursini , Ruben Farinelli , Anna Bobrikova , James F. Steiner , Jiri Svoboda , Alessio Anitra , Maria C. Baglio , Francesco Carotenuto , Melania Del Santo , Carlo Ferrigno , Fraser Lewis , David M. Russell , Thomas D. Russell , Jakob van den Eijnden , Massimo Cocchi , Alessandro Di Marco , Fabio La Monaca , Kuan Liu , John Rankin , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Stefano Bianchi , Luciano Burderi , Tiziana Di Salvo , Elise Egron , Giulia Illiano , Philip Kaaret , Giorgio Matt , Romana Mikušincová , Fabio Muleri , Alessandro Papitto , Iván Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , 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 S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

Flux-resolved Spectropolarimetric Evolution of the X-Ray Pulsar Hercules X-1 Using IXPE

We conduct a spectro-polarimetric study of the accreting X-ray pulsar Hercules X-1 using observations with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). IXPE monitored the source in three different Epochs, sampling two Main-on and one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Akash Garg , Divya Rawat , Yash Bhargava , Mariano Méndez , Sudip Bhattacharyya

Opacities for Photon Splitting and Pair Creation in Neutron Star Magnetospheres

Over the last four decades, persistent and flaring emission of magnetars observed by various telescopes has provided us with a suite of light curves and spectra in soft and hard X-rays, with no emission yet detected above around 1 MeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Kun Hu , Matthew G. Baring , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Alice K. Harding

Multiband Weighting of X-ray Polarization Data

An optimal estimate for Stokes parameters is derived for the situation in X-ray astronomy where the instrument has a modulation factor that varies significantly with energy but the signals are very weak or mildly polarized. For such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Herman L. Marshall

The Polarized Cosmic Hand: IXPE Observations of PSR B1509-58/MSH 15-52

We describe IXPE polarization observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) MSH15-52, the `Cosmic Hand'. We find X-ray polarization across the PWN, with B field vectors generally aligned with filamentary X-ray structures. High significance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-29 Roger W. Romani , Josephine Wong , Niccolo Di Lalla , Nicola Omodei , Fei Xie , C. -Y. Ng , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Alessandro Di Marco , Niccolo Bucciantini , Maura Pilia , Patrick Slane , Martin C. Weisskopf , Simon Johnston , Marta Burgay , Deng Wei , Yi-Jung Yang , Shumeng Zhang , 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 , Chien-Ting Chen , Nicolo Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Ioannis Liodakis , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Dawoon E. Kim , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Grzegorz Madejski , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Riccardo Middei , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Luigi Pacciani , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , 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 Sgro , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Allyn F. Tennant , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

Polarization Signals from Axion-Photon Resonant Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetosphere

Neutron stars provide ideal astrophysical laboratories for probing new physics beyond the Standard Model. If axions exist, photons can develop linear polarization during photon-axion conversion in the magnetic field of a neutron star. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-12 Ningqiang Song , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu

Insights into the broad-band emission of the TeV blazar Mrk 501 during the first X-ray polarization measurements

We present the first multi-wavelength study of Mrk 501 including very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations simultaneous to X-ray polarization measurements from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We use radio-to-VHE data from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 S. Abe , J. Abhir , V. A. Acciari , A. Aguasca-Cabot , I. Agudo , T. Aniello , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , A. Arbet Engels , C. Arcaro , K. Asano , A. Babić , A. Baquero , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , I. Batković , A. Bautista , J. Baxter , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , E. Bernardini , M. Bernardos , J. Bernete , A. Berti , J. Besenrieder , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , O. Blanch , G. Bonnoli , Ž. Bošnjak , I. Burelli , G. Busetto , A. Campoy-Ordaz , A. Carosi , R. Carosi , M. Carretero-Castrillo , A. J. Castro-Tirado , G. Ceribella , Y. Chai , A. Cifuentes , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , G. D'Amico , V. D'Elia , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , R. de Menezes , A. Del Popolo , M. Delfino , J. Delgado , C. Delgado Mendez , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , D. Elsaesser , G. Emery , J. Escudero , L. Fariña , A. Fattorini , 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 , D. Hrupec , M. Hütten , R. Imazawa , K. Ishio , I. Jiménez Mart'inez , T. Kayanoki , D. Kerszberg , G. W. Kluge , Y. Kobayashi , P. M. Kouch , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , M. Láinez Lezáun , A. Lamastra , F. Leone , E. Lindfors , L. Linhoff , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , R. López-Coto , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , A. Lorini , E. Lyard , B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , G. Maneva , N. Mang , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , K. Mannheim , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , M. Martínez-Chicharro , A. Mas-Aguilar , D. Mazin , S. Menchiari , S. Mender , D. Miceli , T. Miener , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , M. Molero González , E. Molina , H. A. Mondal , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , T. Nakamori , C. Nanci , V. Neustroev , C. Nigro , L. Nikolić , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , T. Njoh Ekoume , K. Noda , S. Nozaki , Y. Ohtani , A. Okumura , J. Otero-Santos , S. Paiano , M. Palatiello , 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 , C. Priyadarshi , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , C. Righi , N. Sahakyan , T. Saito , K. Satalecka , F. G. Saturni , B. Schleicher , K. Schmidt , F. Schmuckermaier , J. L. Schubert , T. Schweizer , A. Sciaccaluga , G. Silvestri , J. Sitarek , D. Sobczynska , A. Spolon , A. Stamerra , J. Strišković , D. Strom , Y. Suda , S. Suutarinen , H. Tajima , M. Takahashi , R. Takeishi , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , K. Terauchi , T. Terzić , M. Teshima , L. Tosti , S. Truzzi , A. Tutone , S. Ubach , J. van Scherpenberg , S. Ventura , I. Viale , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , I. Vovk , R. Walter , M. Will , C. Wunderlich , T. Yamamoto , I. Liodakis , F. J. Aceituno , B. Agís-González , H. Akitaya , M. I. Bernardos , D. Blinov , I. G. Bourbah , C. Casadio , V. Casanova , F. D'Ammando , V. Fallah Ramazani , E. Fernández-García , Y. Fukazawa , M. García-Comas , E. Gau , A. Gokus , M. Gurwell , P. Hakala , T. Hovatta , Y. -D. Hu , C. Husillos , J. Jormanainen , S. G. Jorstad , K. S. Kawabata , G. K. Keating , S. Kiehlmann , E. Kontopodis , H. Krawczynski , A. Lähteenmäki , C. Leto , L. Lisalda , N. Mandarakas , A. Marchini , A. P. Marscher , W. Max-Moerbeck , R. Middei , T. Mizuno , I. Myserlis , T. Nakaoka , M. Perri , S. Puccetti , R. Rao , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , N. Rodriguez Cavero , Q. Salomé , M. Sasada , R. Skalidis , A. Sota , I. Syrjärinne , M. Tornikoski , M. Uemura , F. Verrecchia , A. Vervelaki

The X-ray Polarization View of Mrk~421 in an Average Flux State as Observed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Particle acceleration mechanisms in supermassive black hole jets, such as shock acceleration, magnetic reconnection, and turbulence, are expected to have observable signatures in the multi-wavelength polarization properties of blazars. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Laura Di Gesu , Immacolata Donnarumma , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Ivan Agudo , Thibault Barnounin , Nicolò Cibrario , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Juan Escudero , Manel Errando , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Dawoon Kim , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , Ioannis Liodakis , Grzegorz Madejski , Herman L. Marshall , Alan P. Marscher , Riccardo Middei , Fabio Muleri , Ioannis Myserlis , Michela Negro , Nicola Omodei , Luigi Pacciani , Alessandro Paggi , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Lucio A. 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 , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Vladimir Karas , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Toru Tamagawa , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicolas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

NuSTAR results and future plans for magnetar and rotation-powered pulsar observations

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is the first focusing hard X-ray mission in orbit and operates in the 3-79 keV range. NuSTAR's sensitivity is roughly two orders of magnitude better than previous missions in this energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Hongjun An , Victoria M. Kaspi , Robert Archibald , Matteo Bachetti , Varun Bhalerao , Eric C. Bellm , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Steven E. Boggs , Deepto Chakrabarty , Finn E. Christensen , William W. Craig , Francois Dufour , Karl Forster , Eric V. Gotthelf , Brian W. Grefenstette , Charles J. Hailey , Fiona A. Harrison , Romain Hascoet , Takao Kitaguchi , Chryssa Kouveliotou , Kristin K. Madsen , Kaya Mori , Michael J. Pivovaroff , Vikram R. Rana , Daniel Stern , Shriharsh Tendulkar , John A. Tomsick , Julia K. Vogel , William W. Zhang , the NuSTAR Team

Optical I-band Linear Polarimetry of the Magnetar 4U 0142+61 with Subaru

The magnetar 4U~0142+61 has been well studied at optical and infrared wavelengths and is known to have a complicated broad-band spectrum over the wavelength range. Here we report the result from our linear imaging polarimetry of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-20 Z. Wang , Y. T. Tanaka , C. Wang , K. S. Kawabata , Y. Fukazawa , R. Itoh , A. Tziamtzis

Accreting strongly magnetised neutron stars: X-ray Pulsars

X-ray pulsars (XRPs) are accreting strongly magnetised neutron stars (NSs) in binary systems with, as a rule, massive optical companions. Very reach phenomenology and high observed flux put them into the focus of observational and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 Alexander Mushtukov , Sergey Tsygankov

An IXPE-Led X-ray Spectro-Polarimetric Campaign on the Soft State of Cygnus X-1: X-ray Polarimetric Evidence for Strong Gravitational Lensing

We present the first X-ray spectropolarimetric results for Cygnus X-1 in its soft state from a campaign of five IXPE observations conducted during 2023 May-June. Companion multiwavelength data during the campaign are likewise shown. The 2-8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-19 James F. Steiner , Edward Nathan , Kun Hu , Henric Krawczynski , Michal Dovciak , Alexandra Veledina , Fabio Muleri , Jiri Svoboda , Kevin Alabarta , Maxime Parra , Yash Bhargava , Giorgio Matt , Juri Poutanen , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Allyn F. Tennant , M. Cristina Baglio , Luca Baldini , Samuel Barnier , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Stefano Bianchi , Maimouna Brigitte , Mauricio Cabezas , Floriane Cangemi , Fiamma Capitanio , Jacob Casey , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Sohee Chun , Eugene Churazov , Enrico Costa , Niccolo Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Elise Egron , Melissa Ewing , Sergio Fabiani , Javier A. Garcia , David A. Green , Victoria Grinberg , Petr Hadrava , Adam Ingram , Philip Kaaret , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Vadim Kravtsov , Brankica Kubatova , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Vladislav Loktev , Christian Malacaria , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Olga Maryeva , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Nicola Omodei , Jakub Podgorny , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Lauren Rhodes , David M. Russell , Miroslav Slechta , Paolo Soffitta , Sean Spooner , Valery Suleimanov , Francesco Tombesi , Sergei A. Trushkin , Martin C. Weisskopf , Silvia Zane , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Sixuan Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Menglei Zhou , Ivan Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo Bucciantini , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Nicholas E. Thomas , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie

Magnetic field geometry of the gamma-ray binary PSR B1259-63 revealed via X-ray polarization

Some X-ray binaries containing an energetic pulsar in orbit around a normal star accelerate particles to high energies in the shock cone formed where the pulsar and stellar winds collide. The magnetic field geometry in the acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Philip Kaaret , Oliver J. Roberts , Steven R. Ehlert , Douglas A. Swartz , Martin C. Weisskopf , Ioannis Liodakis , M. Lynne Saade , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chien-Ting Chen

IXPE and multi-wavelength observations of blazar PG 1553+113 reveal an orphan optical polarization swing

The lower energy peak of the spectral energy distribution of blazars has commonly been ascribed to synchrotron radiation from relativistic particles in the jets. Despite the consensus regarding jet emission processes, the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Riccardo Middei , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Ioannis Liodakis , Laura Di Gesu , Alan P. Marscher , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Marco Laurenti , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Iván Agudo , Herman L. Marshall , Luigi Pacciani , Dawoon E. Kim , Francisco José Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Beatriz Agís-González , Alfredo Sota , Carolina Casadio , Juan Escudero , Ioannis Myserlis , Albrecht Sievers , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , Mark Gurwell , Garrett K. Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Sincheol Kang , Sang-Sung Lee , Sang-Hyun Kim , Whee Yeon Cheong , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Lucio A. 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 , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. García , 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 , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , 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 , 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

Revisiting X-ray polarization of the shell of Cassiopeia A using spectropolarimetric analysis

X-ray synchrotron radiation is expected to be highly polarized. Thanks to the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), it is now possible to evaluate the degree of X-ray polarization in sources such as supernova remnants (SNRs). Jointly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Alessandra Mercuri , Emanuele Greco , Jacco Vink , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Silvia Perri