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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…

We report the first simultaneous X-ray spectropolarimetric observation of the bright atoll neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 3+1, performed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) joint with NICER and NuSTAR. The source does…

We report on a comprehensive analysis of simultaneous X-ray polarimetric and spectral data of the bright atoll source GX 9+9 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and NuSTAR. The source is significantly polarized in the 4--8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 F. Ursini , R. Farinelli , A. Gnarini , J. Poutanen , S. Bianchi , F. Capitanio , A. Di Marco , S. Fabiani , F. La Monaca , C. Malacaria , G. Matt , R. Mikušincová , M. Cocchi , P. Kaaret , J. J. E. Kajava , M. Pilia , W. Zhang , I. Agudo , L. A. Antonelli , M. Bachetti , L. Baldini , W. H. Baumgartner , R. Bellazzini , S. D. Bongiorno , R. Bonino , A. Brez , N. Bucciantini , S. Castellano , E. Cavazzuti , C. -T. Chen , S. Ciprini , E. Costa , A. De Rosa , E. Del Monte , L. Di Gesu , N. Di Lalla , I. Donnarumma , V. Doroshenko , M. Dovčiak , S. R. Ehlert , T. Enoto , Y. Evangelista , R. Ferrazzoli , J. A. Garcia , S. Gunji , K. Hayashida , J. Heyl , W. Iwakiri , S. G. Jorstad , V. Karas , F. Kislat , T. Kitaguchi , J. J. Kolodziejczak , H. Krawczynski , L. Latronico , I. Liodakis , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , F. Marin , A. Marinucci , A. P. Marscher , H. L. Marshall , F. Massaro , I. Mitsuishi , T. Mizuno , F. Muleri , M. Negro , C. -Y. Ng , S. L. O'Dell , N. Omodei , C. Oppedisano , A. Papitto , G. G. Pavlov , A. L. Peirson , M. Perri , M. Pesce-Rollins , P. -O. Petrucci , M. Pilia , A. Possenti , S. Puccetti , B. D. Ramsey , J. Rankin , A. Ratheesh , O. J. Roberts , R. W. Romani , C. Sgrò , P. Slane , P. Soffitta , G. Spandre , D. A. Swartz , T. Tamagawa , F. Tavecchio , R. Taverna , Y. Tawara , A. F. Tennant , N. E. Thomas , F. Tombesi , A. Trois , S. S. Tsygankov , R. Turolla , J. Vink , M. C. Weisskopf , K. Wu , F. Xie , S. Zane

We have carried out the first spectro-polarimetric study of the bright NS-LMXB GX 9+9 using IXPE and AstroSat observations. We report a significant detection of polarization of $1.7\pm 0.4\%$ over the $2-8$ keV energy band, with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Rwitika Chatterjee , Vivek K. Agrawal , Kiran M. Jayasurya , Tilak Katoch

We report the X-ray and radio polarization study of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) GX 13+1 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Very Large Array (VLA). Simultaneous Neutron Star Interior Composition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Unnati Kashyap , Thomas J. Maccarone , Eliot C. Pattie , Mason Ng , Swati Ravi , Herman L. Marshall

We have studied the spectro-temporal properties of the neutron star low mass X-ray binary GX 9$+$1 using data from \textit{NuSTAR/FPM} and \textit{AstroSat/SXT} and \textit{LAXPC}. The hardness-intensity diagram of the source showed it to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-03 Neal Titus Thomas , S. B. Gudennavar , S. G. Bubbly

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

We report the first X-ray polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Z-source GX 349+2 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We discovered that the X-ray source was polarized at PD = 1.1 +/-…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Unnati Kashyap , Thomas J. Maccarone , Mason Ng , Eliot C. Pattie , Swati Ravi , Herman L. Marshall

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…

In this work, we performed a spectro-temporal investigation of the low-mass X-ray binary GX 9+9 using the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) and Soft X- ray Telescope (SXT) observation on board AstroSat. The source was detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Sree Bhattacherjee , Arbind Pradhan , Biplob Sarkar

We report on the \nustar{} observation of the atoll type neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary GX~3+1 performed on 17 October 2017. The source was found in a soft X-ray spectral state with $3-70$keV luminosity of $L_\text{X}\sim3\times…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-17 Aditya S. Mondal , G. C. Dewangan , B. Raychaudhuri

We report the first spectro-polarimetric investigation of the bright Z-type source GX 349+2 using simultaneous observations of \textit{IXPE}, \textit{NuSTAR} and \textit{Swift/XRT}. The source exhibited significant polarization in the 2-8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Raj Kumar , Subhasish Das

We report the first polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Z-source GX 17+2 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and the Very Large Array (VLA). We find that the X-ray source was polarized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Unnati Kashyap , Thomas J. Maccarone , Eliot C. Pattie , Mason Ng , Swati Ravi , Alexandra J. Tetarenko , Pau Bosch Cabot , Herman L. Marshall

We report the first X-ray and radio polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) atoll-source 4U 1728-34 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-05 Unnati Kashyap , Thomas J. Maccarone , Thomas D. Russell , Mason Ng , Swati Ravi , Eliot C. Pattie , Herman L. Marshall

GX 9+9 (4U 1728-16) is a low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) source harboring a neutron star. Although it belongs to the subclass of the bright Atoll sources together with GX 9+1, GX 3+1, and GX 13+1, its broadband spectrum is poorly studied and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 R. Iaria , S. M. Mazzola , T. Di Salvo , A. Marino , A. F. Gambino , A. Sanna , A. Riggio , L. Burderi

X-ray polarimetry is a new tool capable of probing the geometry of accretion onto weakly magnetized neutron stars. Here we present the first X-ray spectropolarimetric results from coordinated observations of the atoll source 4U 1735-44,…

We have determined an improved position for the luminous persistent neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary and atoll source GX 9+1 from archival Chandra X-ray Observatory data. The new position significantly differs from a previously published…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 Maureen van den Berg , Jeroen Homan

We present the spectro-polarimetric results obtained from simultaneous X-ray observations with IXPE, NuSTAR and NICER of the dipping neutron star X-ray binary 4U 1624-49. This source is the most polarized Atoll source so far observed with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Andrea Gnarini , M. Lynne Saade , Francesco Ursini , Stefano Bianchi , Fiamma Capitanio , Philip Kaaret , Giorgio Matt , Juri Poutanen , Wenda Zhang

We studied and compared the long-term average hard X-ray (>20keV) spectra of a sample of twelve bright low-mass X-ray binaries hosting a neutron star (NS). Our sample comprises the six well studied Galactic Z sources and six Atoll sources,…

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…

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