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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…

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First detection of X-ray polarization from the accreting neutron star 4U 1820-303

This paper reports the first detection of polarization in the X-rays for atoll-source 4U 1820-303, obtained with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) at 99.999% confidence level (CL). Simultaneous polarimetric measurements were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-22 Alessandro Di Marco , Fabio La Monaca , Juri Poutanen , Thomas D. Russell , Alessio Anitra , Ruben Farinelli , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Fabio Muleri , Fei Xie , Matteo Bachetti , Luciano Burderi , Francesco Carotenuto , Melania Del Santo , Tiziana Di Salvo , Michal Dovciak , Andrea Gnarini , Rosario Iaria , Jari J. E. Kajava , Kuan Liu , Riccardo Middei , Stephen L. O'Dell , Maura Pilia , John Rankin , Andrea Sanna , Jakob van den Eijnden , Martin C. Weisskopf , Anna Bobrikova , Fiamma Capitanio , Enrico Costa , Philip Kaaret , Alessio Marino , Paolo Soffitta , Francesco Ursini , Filippo Ambrosino , Massimo Cocchi , Sergio Fabiani , Herman L. Marshall , Giorgio Matt , Sara Elisa Motta , Alessandro Papitto , Luigi Stella , Antonella Tarana , Silvia Zane , Ivan Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo Bucciantini , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolo Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , 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 , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Chi-Yung Ng , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , 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

X-ray and radio polarimetry of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34

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…

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X-Ray Polarimetry of the Dipping Accreting Neutron Star 4U 1624-49

We present the first X-ray polarimetric study of the dipping accreting neutron star 4U 1624$-$49 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We report a detection of polarization in the non-dip time intervals with a confidence level…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 M. Lynne Saade , Philip Kaaret , Andrea Gnarini , Juri Poutanen , Francesco Ursini , Stefano Bianchi , Anna Bobrikova , Fabio La Monaca , Alessandro Di Marco , Fiamma Capitanio , Alexandra Veledina , Ivan Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo Bucciantini , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesù , Niccolo Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Emote , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , 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 , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizudo , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Oliver Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas Z. Zwartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tenant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

Ionisation state of the accretion disc in the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34

We analysed an XMM-Newton plus a simultaneous Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation and a separate Suzaku observation of the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34. We fitted the X-ray spectra with the self-consistent reflection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Ming Lyu , Mariano Mendez , Jian-Fu Zhang , Fu-Yuan Xiang

X-ray polarimetry and spectroscopy of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 9+9: an in-depth study with IXPE and NuSTAR

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

X-ray spectropolarimetry of the bright atoll Serpens X-1

We present simultaneous X-ray polarimetric and spectral observations of the bright atoll source Ser~X-1 carried out with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), NICER, and NuSTAR. We obtain an upper limit of 2% (99% confidence level)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-30 F. Ursini , A. Gnarini , S. Bianchi , A. Bobrikova , F. Capitanio , M. Cocchi , S. Fabiani , R. Farinelli , P. Kaaret , G. Matt , M. Ng , J. Poutanen , S. Ravi , A. Tarana

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

Polarized x-rays from a magnetar

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

Exploring polarization and geometry in the X-ray pulsar 4U 1538-52

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations of accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) continue to provide novel insights into the physics and geometry of these sources. We present the first X-ray polarimetric study of the persistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-28 Vladislav Loktev , Sofia V. Forsblom , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Juri Poutanen , Alexander A. Mushtukov , Alessandro Di Marco , Jeremy Heyl , Ruth M. E. Kelly , Fabio La Monaca , Mason Ng , Swati Ravi , Alexander Salganik , Andrea Santangelo , Valery F. Suleimanov , Silvia Zane

Accretion geometry of the neutron star low mass X-ray binary Cyg X-2 from X-ray polarization measurements

We report spectro-polarimetric results of an observational campaign of the bright neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Cyg X-2 simultaneously observed by IXPE, NICER and INTEGRAL. Consistently with previous results, the broad-band spectrum is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 R. Farinelli , S. Fabiani , J. Poutanen , F. Ursini , C. Ferrigno , S. Bianchi , M. Cocchi , F. Capitanio , A. De Rosa , A. Gnarini , F. Kislat , G. Matt , R. Mikusincova , F. Muleri , 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 , S. Ciprini , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , L. Di Gesu , N. Di Lalla , A. Di Marco , 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 , T. Kitaguchi , J. J. Kolodziejczak , H. Krawczynski , F. La Monaca , L. Latronico , I. Liodakis , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , F. Marin , A. P. Marscher , H. L. Marshall , I. Mitsuishi , T. Mizuno , 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 , R. W. Romani , C. Sgrò , P. Slane , P. Soffitta , G. Spandre , 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

The first IXPE view of the eclipsing ADC source 4U 1822-37

Accretion-disc corona sources are high-inclination low-mass X-ray binaries in which the innermost regions are hidden and the observed X-ray emission is dominated by radiation scattered above the disc. 4U 1822-37 is a key binary system of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 A. Anitra , A. Gnarini , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , A. Marino , F. Barra , L. Burderi , A. Sanna , L. Marra , S. Bianchi , G. Matt , F. Ursini , F. Capitanio , S. Fabiani , P. Kaaret , A. Tarana

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Romana Mikušincová , Lorenzo Marra , Hemanth Manikantan , Stefano Bianchi , Fiamma Capitanio , Sudip Chakraborty , Raul Ciancarella , Enrico Costa , Nicolas De Angelis , Melania Del Santo , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Vittoria E. Gianolli , Andrea Gnarini , Adam Ingram , Shifra Mandel , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Giorgio Matt , Kaya Mori , Fabio Muleri , Simone Pagliarella , Maxime Parra , P. O. Petrucci , Jakub Podgorný , Juri Poutanen , Swati Ravi , Paolo Soffitta , James F. Steiner , Antonella Tarana , Roberto Taverna , Francesco Ursini , Alexandra Veledina , Federico M. Vincentelli , Anastasiya Yilmaz , Barbara De Marco , Maitrayee Gupta , Vladislav Loktev , Thomas D. Russell , Jiří Svoboda , Francesco Tombesi , Shuo Zhang

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 Antonella Tarana , Fiamma Capitanio , Andrea Gnarini , Sergio Fabiani , Francesco Ursini , Stefano Bianchi , Carlo Ferrigno , Maxime Parra , Massimo Cocchi , Ruben Farinelli , Giorgio Matt , Paolo Soffitta , Anna Bobrikova , Philip Kaaret , Mason Ng , Juri Poutanen , Swati Ravi

Probing the polarized emission from the accretion-powered pulsar 4U 1907+09 with IXPE

We present observations of the accretion-powered X-ray pulsar (XRP) 4U 1907+09, conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) that delivers the first high-quality polarization measurements of this source. 4U 1907+09 was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Menglei Zhou , Lorenzo Ducci , Honghui Liu , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Sofia V. Forsblom , Alexander A. Mushtukov , Valery F. Suleimanov , Juri Poutanen , Pengju Wang , Alessandro Di Marco , Victor Doroshenko , Fabio La Monaca , Vladislav Loktev , Alexander Salganik , Andrea Santangelo

Determination of X-ray pulsar geometry with IXPE polarimetry

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

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

We report the first detection of X-ray polarization with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer from the X-ray pulsar (XRP) 4U 1954$+$319. The source belongs to an extremely rare class of systems in which a slowly rotating neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Alexander Salganik , Lingda Kong , Sofia V. Forsblom , Menglei Zhou , Honghui Liu , QingChang Zhao , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Andrea Santangelo , Juri Poutanen

Highly Significant Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Brightest Accreting Neutron Star Sco X-1

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) measured with high significance the X-ray polarization of the brightest Z-source Scorpius X-1, resulting in the nominal 2-8 keV energy band in a polarization degree of 1.0(0.2)% and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-25 Fabio La Monaca , Alessandro Di Marco , Juri Poutanen , Matteo Bachetti , Sara E. Motta , Alessandro Papitto , Maura Pilia , Fei Xie , Stefano Bianchi , Anna Bobrikova , Enrico Costa , Wei Deng , Mingyu Ge , Giulia Illiano , Shu-Mei Jia , Henric Krawczynski , Eleonora V. Lai , Kuan Liu , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Fabio Muleri , John Rankin , Paolo Soffitta , Alexandra Veledina , Filippo Ambrosino , Melania Del Santo , Wei Chen , Javier A. Garcia , Philip Kaaret , Thomas D. Russell , Wen-Hao Wei , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Chao Zuo , Zaven Arzoumanian , Massimo Cocchi , Andrea Gnarini , Ruben Farinelli , Keith C. Gendreau , Francesco Ursini , Martin C. Weisskopf , Silvia Zane , Ivan Agudo , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting J. Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashidadag , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Fre'de'ric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Stephen Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , George Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu

Detection of X-ray polarized emission and accretion-disk winds with IXPE and NICER in the black-hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47

We detect a high level of polarization in the X-ray emission of the black-hole binary 4U 1630-47 in an observation with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. The 2-8 keV polarization degree is 8 % at a position angle of $18^\circ$, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-15 Divya Rawat , Akash Garg , Mariano Méndez

The X-ray spectrum of the atoll source 4U 1608-52

The transient atoll source 4U 1608-52 had been extensively observed by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer RXTE during its 1998 outburst. We analyse its X-ray spectra as a function of inferred accretion rate from both the 1998 outburst and from…

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