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Cen X-3 is the first X-ray pulsar discovered 50 years ago. Radiation from such objects is expected to be highly polarized due to birefringence of plasma and vacuum associated with propagation of photons in presence of the strong magnetic…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2022-12-21
Sergey S. Tsygankov , Victor Doroshenko , Juri Poutanen , Jeremy Heyl , Alexander A. Mushtukov , Ilaria Caiazzo , Alessandro Di Marco , Sofia V. Forsblom , Denis González-Caniulef , Moritz Klawin , Fabio La Monaca , Christian Malacaria , Herman L. Marshall , Fabio Muleri , Mason Ng , Valery F. Suleimanov , Rashid A. Sunyaev , Roberto Turolla , Iván Agudo , 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 , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicolas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane
Polarimetric observations of X-ray pulsars (XRPs) have provided us with the key to unlocking their geometrical properties. Thanks to the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) the geometries of several XRPs have been determined,…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-04-23
Sofia V. Forsblom , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Valery F. Suleimanov , Alexander A. Mushtukov , Juri Poutanen
Vela X-1 is one of the most archetypal wind-fed X-ray pulsars (XRPs), and the emergence of its orthogonal polarization states reveals distinctive polarimetric properties. Using data from Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-11-17
WanYun Wu , Fei Xie , Long Ji , Mingyu Ge , Fabio La Monaca
We report the discovery of significant X-ray polarization from the dynamically confirmed black hole X-ray binary (BHXB) GS 1354-64 during its 2025-2026 outburst, obtained with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The observation,…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2026-03-05
Swati Ravi , Lorenzo Marra , James F. Steiner , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Mason Ng , Joey Neilsen , Herman L. Marshall , Fiamma Capitanio , Sudeb Ranjan Datta , Elise Egron , Javier A. Garcia , Adam Ingram , Philip Kaaret , Ole Koenig , Honghui Liu , Romana Mikusincova , Edward J. R. Nathan , P. -O. Petrucci , Jakub Podgorny , Chiara Salvaggio , Jiri Svoboda , Alexandra Veledina , Yuexin Zhang
X-ray polarization in SN 1006 southwest shows spatial variations and differences with the radio band
We report the detection of a spatial variation of X-ray polarization in the southwestern shell of SN 1006 (SN 1006 SW) using IXPE. The shell has an average X-ray polarization degree (PD) of $21.6\%\pm 4.5\%$ and polarization angle (PA) of…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-05-16
Ping Zhou , Patrick Slane , Dmitry Prokhorov , Jacco Vink , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , William Cotton , Niccolò Bucciantini , Yi-Jung Yang , Stefano Silvestri , Douglas A. Swartz , Philip Kaaret , Enrico Costa , C. -Y. Ng , Estela Reynoso , Paolo Soffitta , Allyn F. Tennant , Wenlang He , David Moffett
We report the first detection of X-ray polarization in the horizontal branch for GX 340+0 as obtained by Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). A polarization degree of 4.3%$\pm$0.3% is obtained. This value is in agreement with the…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2024-11-21
Fabio La Monaca , Alessandro Di Marco , Renee M. Ludlam , Anna Bobrikova , Juri Poutanen , Songwei Li , Fei Xie
Operational since 2002 on-board the INTEGRAL observatory, the SPI spectrometer can be used to perform polarization measurements in the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray domain (~ 130 keV - 8 MeV). However, this phenomenon is complex to measure at…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2015-06-11
E. Jourdain , J. P. Roques , M. Chauvin , D. J. Clark
We present the results of a three-year X-ray, optical, and radio polarimetric monitoring campaign of the prototypical black hole X-ray binary Cyg X-1, conducted from 2022 to 2024. The X-ray polarization of Cyg X-1 was measured 13 times with…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-09-15
Vadim Kravtsov , Anastasiia Bocharova , Alexandra Veledina , Juri Poutanen , Andrew K. Hughes , Michal Dovčiak , Elise Egron , Fabio Muleri , Jakub Podgorny , Jiři Svoboda , Sofia V. Forsblom , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Dmitry Blinov , Joe S. Bright , Francesco Carotenuto , David A. Green , Adam Ingram , Ioannis Liodakis , Nikos Mandarakas , Anagha P. Nitindala , Lauren Rhodes , Sergei A. Trushkin , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Maimouna Brigitte , Alessandro Di Marco , Noemi Iacolina , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Vladislav Loktev , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Francesco Tombesi , Andrzej A. Zdziarski
We present the discovery of X-ray polarization from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z-source, GX~340$+$0, using an Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observation in March 2024. Along with the IXPE observation, we conducted…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2024-05-30
Yash Bhargava , Mason Ng , Liang Zhang , Arvind Balasubramanian , Thomas D. Russell , Aman Kaushik , Vishal Jadoliya , Swati Ravi , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Mayukh Pahari , Jeroen Homan , Herman L. Marshall , Deepto Chakrabarty , Francesco Carotenuto
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
We report on a $\sim 5\sigma$ detection of polarized 3-6 keV X-ray emission from the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The overall polarization degree of $1.8 \pm 0.3$% is detected by summing…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2022-10-26
Jacco Vink , Dmitry Prokhorov , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Patrick Slane , Ping Zhou , Kazunori Asakura , Luca Baldini , Niccolo Bucciantini , Enrico Costa , Alessandro Di Marco , Jeremy Heyl , Frederic Marin , Tsunefumi Mizuno , C. Y. Ng , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Carmelo Sgro , Paolo Soffitta , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Martin C. Weisskopf , Yi-Jung Yang , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Raffaella Bonino , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Luigi Costamante , Niccolo Di Lalla , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Silvia Zane , Ivan Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Alessandro Brez , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Ioannis Liodakis , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Giorgio Matt , Fabio Muleri , Stephen L. O'Dell , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Roger W. Romani , Gloria Spandre , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicolas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie
Using observations of X-ray pulsar Her X-1 by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, we report on a highly significant ($>17\sigma$) detection of the polarization signal from an accreting neutron star. The observed degree of the linear…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-01-16
Victor Doroshenko , Juri Poutanen , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Valery F. Suleimanov , Matteo Bachetti , Ilaria Caiazzo , Enrico Costa , Alessandro Di Marco , Jeremy Heyl , Fabio La Monaca , Fabio Muleri , Alexander A. Mushtukov , George G. Pavlov , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Andrea Santangelo , Paolo Soffitta , Rüdiger Staubert , Martin C. Weisskopf , Silvia Zane , Iván Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , 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 , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , 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 , Vladimir Karas , 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 , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Ajay Ratheesh , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Gloria Spandre , Rashid A. Sunyaev , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicolas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie
We studied the polarization properties of Cygnus X-1 in both hard and soft spectral states with Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations. The polarization degree is $\sim4$%, and $\sim 2.6-2.8$% in the hard and soft states,…
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…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2026-05-12
Yash Bhargava , Thomas D. Russell , Mason Ng , Arvind Balasubramanian , Liang Zhang , Swati Ravi , Vishal Jadoliya , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Mayukh Pahari , Jeroen Homan , Herman L. Marshall , Deepto Chakrabarty , Francesco Carotenuto , Aman Kaushik
We present measurements of the polarization of X-rays in the 2-8 keV band from the pulsar in the ultracompact low mass X-ray binary 4U1626-67 using data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The 7.66 s pulsations were clearly…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2022-11-30
Herman L. Marshall , Mason Ng , Daniele Rogantini , Jeremy Heyl , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Juri Poutanen , Enrico Costa , Silvia Zane , Christian Malacaria , Ivan Agudo , 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 , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolo Di Lalla , 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 , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. ODell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Norbert S. Schulz , Deepto Chakrabarty
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 present multiwavelength polarization measurements of the luminous blazar Mrk~501 over a 14-month period. The 2--8 keV X-ray polarization was measured with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) with six 100-ks observations…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2024-07-17
Chien-Ting J. Chen , Ioannis Liodakis , Riccardo Middei , Dawoon E. Kim , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Steven R. Ehlert , Manel Errando , Michela Negro , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Alan P. Marscher , Kinwah Wu , Iván Agudo , Juri Poutanen , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , George A. Borman , Tatiana S. Grishina , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Sergey S. Savchenko , Ivan S. Troitsky , Yulia V. Troitskaya , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Francisco José Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Juan Escudero , Beatriz Agís-González , César Husillos , Jorge Otero Santos , Alfredo Sota , Vilppu Piirola , Ioannis Myserlis , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Mark Gurwell , Garrett Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Sincheol Kang , Sang-Sung Lee , Sang-Hyun Kim , Whee Yeon Cheong , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Chanwoo Song , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Masato Kagitani , Vadim Kravtsov , Anagha P. Nitindala , Takeshi Sakanoi , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Carolina Casadio , Albrecht Sievers , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccoló Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccoló Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , 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 , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , 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 , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , 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 S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane
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 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
We report on the first detection of linearly polarized x-ray emission from an ultra-magnetized neutron star with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The IXPE 35 observations of the anomalous x-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61 reveal a…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2022-11-30
Roberto Taverna , Roberto Turolla , Fabio Muleri , Jeremy Heyl , Silvia Zane , Luca Baldini , Denis González Caniulef , Matteo Bachetti , John Rankin , Ilaria Caiazzo , Niccolò Di Lalla , Victor Doroshenko , Manel Errando , Ephraim Gau , Demet Kırmızıbayrak , Henric Krawczynski , Michela Negro , Mason Ng , Nicola Omodei , Toru Tamagawa , Keisuke Uchiyama , Martin C. Weisskopf , Ivan Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , 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 , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Stephen C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicolas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie