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A model for the polarization of the high-energy radiation from accreting black holes: the case of XTE J1118+480

The high-energy emission ($400$ keV $- 2$ MeV) of Cygnus X-1 --the most well-studied Galactic black hole-- was recently found to be strongly polarized. The origin of this radiation is still unknown. In this work, we suggest that it is the…

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X-ray polarimetry of X-ray pulsar X Persei: another orthogonal rotator?

X Persei is a persistent low-luminosity X-ray pulsar of period of $\sim$835 s in a Be binary system. The field strength at the neutron star surface is not known precisely, but indirect signs indicate a magnetic field above $10^{13}$ G,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 A. A. Mushtukov , S. S. Tsygankov , J. Poutanen , V. Doroshenko , A. Salganik , E. Costa , A. Di Marco , J. Heyl , F. La Monaca , A. A. Lutovinov , I. A. Mereminsky , A. Papitto , A. N. Semena , A. E. Shtykovsky , V. F. Suleimanov , S. V. Forsblom , D. González-Caniulef , C. Malacaria , R. A. Sunyaev , I. Agudo , L. A. Antonelli , M. Bachetti , L. Baldini , W. H. Baumgartner , R. Bellazzini , S. Bianchi , S. D. Bongiorno , R. Bonino , A. Brez , N. Bucciantini , F. Capitanio , S. Castellano , E. Cavazzuti , C. -T. Chen , S. Ciprini , A. De Rosa , E. Del Monte , L. Di Gesu , N. Di Lalla , I. Donnarumma , M. Dovčiak , S. R. Ehlert , T. Enoto , Y. Evangelista , S. Fabiani , R. Ferrazzoli , J. A. Garcia , S. Gunji , K. Hayashida , W. Iwakiri , S. G. Jorstad , P. Kaaret , V. Karas , F. Kislat , T. Kitaguchi , J. J. Kolodziejczak , H. Krawczynski , L. Latronico , I. Liodakis , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , F. Marin , A. P. Marscher , H. L. Marshall , F. Massaro , G. Matt , I. Mitsuishi , T. Mizuno , F. Muleri , M. Negro , C. -Y. Ng , S. L. O'Dell , N. Omodei , C. Oppedisano , 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 , R. Turolla , J. Vink , M. C. Weisskopf , K. Wu , F. Xie , S. Zane

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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First spectropolarimetric observation of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 3+1

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Andrea Gnarini , Ruben Farinelli , Francesco Ursini , Stefano Bianchi , Fiamma Capitanio , Giorgio Matt , Mason Ng , Antonella Tarana , Anna Bobrikova , Massimo Cocchi , Sergio Fabiani , Philip Kaaret , Juri Poutanen , Swati Ravi

IXPE Observation of the Low-Synchrotron Peaked Blazar S4 0954+65 During An Optical-X-ray Flare

The X-ray polarization observations made possible with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) offer new ways of probing high-energy emission processes in astrophysical jets from blazars. Here we report on the first X-ray polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 Pouya M. Kouch , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Fenu , Haocheng Zhang , Stella Boula , Riccardo Middei , Laura Di Gesu , Georgios F. Paraschos , Iván Agudo , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Elina Lindfors , Alan P. Marscher , Henric Krawczynski , Michela Negro , Kun Hu , Dawoon E. Kim , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Manel Errando , Dmitry Blinov , Anastasia Gourni , Sebastian Kiehlmann , Angelos Kourtidis , Nikos Mandarakas , Nikolaos Triantafyllou , Anna Vervelaki , George A. Borman , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Sergey S. Savchenko , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Ivan S. Troitskiy , Tatiana S. Grishina , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Francisco José Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Juan Escudero , Beatriz Agís-González , César Husillos , Jorge Otero-Santos , Vilppu Piirola , Alfredo Sota , Ioannis Myserlis , Mark Gurwell , Garrett K. Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , 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 , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccolò 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 , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , Chi-Yung 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 , 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 , Roger W. Romani , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

Prospects for differentiating extended coronal geometries in AGNs with the IXPE mission

X-ray polarimetry can potentially constrain the unknown geometrical shape of AGN coronae. We present simulations of the X-ray polarization signal expected from AGN coronae, assuming three different geometries, namely slab, spherical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 F. Ursini , G. Matt , S. Bianchi , A. Marinucci , M. Dovčiak , W. Zhang

Polarization Dynamics of X-Ray Synchrotron Emission from a Multi-Zone Blazar Jet

The polarization of X-ray synchrotron emission in blazars directly probes the magnetic field geometry and particle acceleration processes in relativistic jets. We use particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection and magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-25 Benjamin de Jonge , Haocheng Zhang , Manel Errando , Andrea Gokus , Pazit Rabinowitz

Unveiling the X-ray polarimetric properties of LMC X-3 with IXPE, NICER, and Swift/XRT

The incoming Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations of X-ray binaries provide a new tool to investigate the underlying accretion geometry. Here we report the first measurements of X-ray polarization of the extra-galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Akash Garg , Divya Rawat , Mariano Méndez

The polarization of the boundary layer around weakly magnetized neutron stars in X-ray binaries

X-ray binaries hosting a compact object have been among the main targets of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) since its launch, due to their high brightness in the 2-8 keV energy band. The spectropolarimetric analysis performed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 R. Farinelli , A. Waghmare , L. Ducci , A. Santangelo

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Prospects for Spatially-Resolved X-ray Polarimetry of Extended Sources and In-Orbit Calibrations

This thesis focuses on X-ray polarimetry and its recent resurgence due to the NASA/ASI Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched in December 2021. It aims to address two critical tasks: in-orbit calibrations and observing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-22 Riccardo Ferrazzoli

The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Probing the physics of the X-ray corona in active galactic nuclei

The hard X-ray emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and black hole X-ray binaries is thought to be produced by a hot cloud of electrons referred to as the corona. This emission, commonly described by a power law with a high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 E. Kammoun , A. M. Lohfink , M. Masterson , D. R. Wilkins , X. Zhao , M. Baloković , P. G. Boorman , R. M. T. Connors , P. Coppi , A. C. Fabian , J. A. García , K. K. Madsen , N. Rodriguez Cavero , N. Sridhar , D. Stern , J. Tomsick , T. Wevers , D. J. Walton , S. Bianchi , J. Buchner , F. Civano , G. Lanzuisi , L. Mallick , G. Matt , A. Merloni , E. Nardini , J. M. Piotrowska , C. Ricci , K. -W. Wong , A. Zoghbi , the HEX-P Collaboration

Developing a Compton Polarimeter to Measure Polarization of Hard X-Rays in the 50-300 keV Energy Range

This paper discusses the latest progress in the development of GRAPE (Gamma-Ray Polarimeter Experiment), a hard X-ray Compton Polarimeter. The purpose of GRAPE is to measure the polarization of hard X-rays in the 50-300 keV energy range. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 J. S. Legere , P. Bloser , J. R. Macri , M. L. McConnell , T. Narita , J. M. Ryan

Polarization properties of weakly magnetized Neutron Stars in Low Mass X-ray Binaries

X-ray polarimetry missions like IXPE will be able to measure for the first time the polarization properties of accreting, weakly magnetized neutron stars in Low Mass X-ray Binaries. In this work we present simulations of the expected X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-06 Andrea Gnarini , Francesco Ursini , Giorgio Matt , Stefano Bianchi , Fiamma Capitanio , Massimo Cocchi , Ruben Farinelli , Wenda Zhang

XMM-Newton observations of GX 13+1: correlation between photoionised absorption and broad line emission

We analysed data from five XMM-Newton observations of GX 13+1 to investigate the variability of the photo-ionised absorber present in this source. We fitted EPIC and RGS spectra obtained from the "least-variable" intervals with a model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Diaz Trigo , L. Sidoli , L. Boirin , A. Parmar

First spectro-polarimetric study of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 9+1

We present the first spectro-polarimetric study of the bright atoll source GX 9+1, using the simultaneous Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), and Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observations. The source was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 V. P. Shyam Prakash , Vivek K. Agrawal , A. M. Vinodkumar

Prospects for Detecting X-ray Polarization in Blazar Jets

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-09 I. Liodakis , A. L. Peirson , R. W. Romani

Detection of X-ray Polarization from the Blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Observations of linear polarization in the 2-8 keV energy range with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) explore the magnetic field geometry and dynamics of the regions generating non-thermal radiation in relativistic jets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-26 Manel Errando , Ioannis Liodakis , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Riccardo Middei , Michela Negro , Abel Lawrence Peirson , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Pazit L. Rabinowitz , Iván Agudo , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Sergey S. Savchenko , Dmitry Blinov , Ioakeim G. Bourbah , Sebastian Kiehlmann , Evangelos Kontopodis , Nikos Mandarakas , Stylianos Romanopoulos , Raphael Skalidis , Anna Vervelaki , Francisco José Aceituno , Maria I. Bernardos , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Beatriz Agís-González , César Husillos , Alessandro Marchini , Alfredo Sota , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , Carolina Casadio , Juan Escudero , Ioannis Myserlis , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Mark Gurwell , Garrett K. Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Adam Ingram , Francesco Massaro , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Raffaella Bonino , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Nicolò Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Laura Di Gesu , Federico Di Pierro , Immacolata Donnarumma , Steven R. Ehlert , Francesco Fenu , Ephraim Gau , Vladimir Karas , Dawoon E. Kim , Henric Krawczynski , Marco Laurenti , Lindsey Lisalda , Rubén López-Coto , Grzegorz Madejski , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Fabio Muleri , Luigi Pacciani , Alessandro Paggi , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , Roger W. Romani , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Stefano Tugliani , Kinwah Wu , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , 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 , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Giorgio Matt , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , 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 , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

X-ray polarization observations of IC 4329A with IXPE: Constraining the geometry of the X-ray corona

X-ray polarimetry is a powerful tool to probe the geometry of the hot X-ray corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Here, we present our results on the characterisation of the X-ray polarization of the radio-quiet Seyfert-type AGN IC 4329A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Indrani Pal , C. S. Stalin , Rwitika Chatterjee , Vivek K. Agrawal

Probing the Origin of Magnetar X-ray Polarization Diversity: A Multi-wavelength Geometrical Study of 1E 1547.0-5408 and 1E 2259+586

The exceptionally high X-ray polarization recently detected in the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 is considered a strong candidate signature of quantum electrodynamic vacuum birefringence, an interpretation that hinges critically on the source's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Biao-Peng Li , Zhi-Fu Gao , Wen-Qi Ma , Wei-Feng Zhang

Physical interpretation of the UV/X-ray variability behavior of NGC 7469

We present a re-analysis of the simultaneous 30 day IUE/XTE observation of NGC 7469 done in 1996. Our main progress, in comparison to previous spectral analysis, is to adopt and fit directly to the data a detailed Comptonization model. This…

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