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astro-ph.HE2024

Detection of extended X-ray emission around the PeVatron microquasar V4641 Sgr with XRISM

Hiromasa Suzuki, Naomi Tsuji, Yoshiaki Kanemaru +26

A recent report on the detection of very-high-energy gamma rays from V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr) up to ~0.8 peta-electronvolt has made it the second confirmed "PeVatron" microquas…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 8 cited

Influence of the turbulent magnetic pressure on isothermal jet emitting disks

N. Zimniak, J. Ferreira, J. Jacquemin-Ide

The theory of jet emitting disks (JEDs) provides a mathematical framework for a self-consistent treatment of steady-state accretion and ejection. A large-scale vertical magnetic fi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 10 cited

Synthetic pulsar lightcurves from global kinetic simulations and comparison with the Fermi-LAT catalog

Benoît Cerutti, Enzo Figueiredo, Guillaume Dubus

Rotation-powered pulsars represent the main class of identified gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy. The wealth of observational data collected by the AGILE and Fermi gamma-ray space t…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 10 cited

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

Pouya M. Kouch, Ioannis Liodakis, Francesco Fenu +134

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

Evidence for a shock-compressed magnetic field in the northwestern rim of Vela Jr. from X-ray polarimetry

Dmitry A. Prokhorov, Yi-Jung Yang, Riccardo Ferrazzoli +97

Synchrotron X-ray emission has been detected from nearly a dozen young supernova remnants (SNRs). X-rays of synchrotron origin exhibit linear polarization in a regular, non-randoml…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

Thermal solutions of strongly magnetized disks and the hysteresis in X-ray binaries

Nicolas Scepi, Jason Dexter, Mitchell C. Begelman +3

X-ray binaries (XRBs) exhibit spectral hysteresis for luminosities in the range , with a hard X-ray spectral state that persists from…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 10 cited

Relativistic reconnection with effective resistivity: I. Dynamics and reconnection rate

M. Bugli, E. F. Lopresti, E. Figueiredo +6

Relativistic magnetic reconnection is one of the most fundamental mechanisms considered responsible for the acceleration of relativistic particles in astrophysical jets and magneto…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 14 cited

SIROCCO: A Publicly Available Monte Carlo Ionization and Radiative Transfer Code for Astrophysical Outflows

James H. Matthews, Knox S. Long, Christian Knigge +8

Outflows are critical components of many astrophysical systems, including accreting compact binaries and active galactic nuclei (AGN). These outflows can significantly affect a sys…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Magnetically Arrested Disks

Jesse Vos, Benoit Cerutti, Monika Moscibrodzka +1

We present the first collisionless realization of two-dimensional axisymmetric black hole accretion consistent with a persistent magnetically arrested disk state. The accretion flo…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited

Investigating the interplay between the coronal properties and the hard X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei with NuSTAR

Roberto Serafinelli, Alessandra De Rosa, Alessia Tortosa +11

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are extremely variable in the X-ray band down to very short timescales. However, the driver behind the X-ray variability is still poorly understood. Pr…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 18 cited

A second view on the X-ray polarization of NGC 4151 with IXPE

V. E. Gianolli, S. Bianchi, E. Kammoun +21

We report on the second observing program of the active galactic nucleus NGC 4151 with simultaneous Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE; {\sim}750 ks), NuSTAR ({\sim}60 ks), X…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 10 cited

Scaling up global kinetic models of pulsar magnetospheres using a hybrid force-free-PIC numerical approach

Adrien Soudais, Benoît Cerutti, Ioannis Contopoulos

The particle-in-cell approach has proven effective at modeling neutron star and black hole magnetospheres from first principles, but global simulations are plagued with an unrealis…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited

Probing the polarized emission from SMC X-1: the brightest X-ray pulsar observed by IXPE

Sofia V. Forsblom, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Juri Poutanen +101

Recent observations of X-ray pulsars (XRPs) performed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have made it possible to investigate the intricate details of these objects i…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 14 cited

Discovery of a shock-compressed magnetic field in the north-western rim of the young supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with X-ray polarimetry

Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Dmitry Prokhorov, Niccolò Bucciantini +99

Supernova remnants (SNRs) provide insights into cosmic-ray acceleration and magnetic field dynamics at shock fronts. Recent X-ray polarimetric measurements by the Imaging X-ray Pol…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 35 cited

IXPE observation of PKS 2155-304 reveals the most highly polarized blazar

Pouya M. Kouch, Ioannis Liodakis, Riccardo Middei +133

We report the X-ray polarization properties of the high-synchrotron-peaked (HSP) blazar PKS 2155304 based on observations with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We…

astro-ph.HE2024

X-ray view of dissipative warm corona in active galactic nuclei

B. Palit, A. Rozanska, P. O. Petrucci +8

In the X-ray spectra of AGNs, a noticeable excess of soft X-rays is typically detected beyond the extrapolation of the power-law trend observed between 2-10 keV. In the scenario of…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Simulation-based inference of radio millisecond pulsars in globular clusters

Joanna Berteaud, Christopher Eckner, Francesca Calore +2

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are abundant in globular clusters (GCs), which offer favorable environments for their creation. While the advent of recent, powerful facilities led to a…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

The origin of the soft excess in the luminous quasar HE 1029-1401

B. Vaia, F. Ursini, G. Matt +7

The enigmatic and intriguing phenomenon of the "soft excess" observed in the X-ray spectra of luminous quasars continues to be a subject of considerable interest and debate in the…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 16 cited

Studying geometry of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 using X-ray and optical polarimetry

Juri Poutanen, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Victor Doroshenko +108

Discovery of pulsations from a number of ULXs proved that accretion onto neutron stars can produce luminosities exceeding the Eddington limit by several orders of magnitude. The co…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Galactic transient sources with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Consortium

A wide variety of Galactic sources show transient emission at soft and hard X-ray energies: low- and high-mass X-ray binaries containing compact objects, isolated neutron stars exh…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 32 cited

Recovery of the X-ray polarisation of Swift J1727.81613 after the soft-to-hard spectral transition

J. Podgorný, J. Svoboda, M. Dovčiak +34

We report on the detection of X-ray polarisation in the black-hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.81613 during its dim hard spectral state by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (I…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

Impact of the disk magnetization on MHD disk wind signature

Sudeb Ranjan Datta, Susmita Chakravorty, Jonathan Ferreira +8

Observation of blue-shifted X-ray absorption lines indicates the presence of wind from the accretion disk in X-ray binaries. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) driving is one of the possibl…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 45 cited

Dramatic Drop in the X-Ray Polarization of Swift J1727.81613 in the Soft Spectral State

Jiří Svoboda, Michal Dovčiak, James F. Steiner +34

Black-hole X-ray binaries exhibit different spectral and timing properties in different accretion states. The X-ray outburst of a recently discovered and extraordinarily bright sou…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 18 cited

X-ray polarization measurement of the gold standard of radio-quiet active galactic nuclei : NGC 1068

F. Marin, A. Marinucci, M. Laurenti +102

We used the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite to measure, for the first time, the 2-8 keV polarization of NGC 1068. We pointed IXPE for a net exposure time of 1.1…