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EXPO: a quantum leap in fast, wide-band X-ray polarimetry for astrophysics
Paolo Soffitta, Sebastien Guillot, Ian Hutchinson +137
The Enhanced X-ray Polarimetry Observatory (EXPO) is a mission concept proposed to ESA as an M8 candidate, with a prospective launch in 2041. Building on the scientific success of…
A Focal-plane X-ray Polarimeter with Spectral and Timing Capabilities for Future Missions
Hemanth Manikantan, Carlo Lefevre, Lorenzo Petrucci +16
The NASA-ASI mission Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) firmly established X-ray polarimetry as a core observation pillar of high-energy astrophysics, alongside imaging, tim…
Peering through the dip: IXPE unveils the extended scattering environment of GX 13+1
Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca, Luigi Stella +17
Neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries feature complex accretion geometries, often including an accretion disk corona or disk winds. Here, a study of the highly inclined dipping sour…
Unchanged X-Ray Polarization During Accretion Dips in the Low Hard State of Cygnus X-1
Yu-shan Ling, Fei Xie, Alessandro Di Marco +2
Cygnus X-1 serves as a foundational benchmark for studying accretion mechanisms in stellar-mass black hole X-ray binaries. While traditional X-ray timing and spectroscopy have mapp…
Instruments for Focal Plane X-Ray Polarimetry in the Next Decade
Fabio Muleri, Stefano Cesare, Enrico Costa +18
The successful detection of X-ray polarization from many celestial sources belonging to different classes by the IXPE mission has opened a new window in X-ray astronomy. While an i…
Graph Neural Networks Trained on Null Signal for Angle Reconstruction in X-ray Polarimetry
Vittorio Latorre, Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez, Alessandro Di Marco +3
Scientific real detectors often produce sparse, irregular data defined on non-Euclidean domains, where conventional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) impose geometric biases tha…
Pulse profile modelling of the 2024 outburst of the accreting millisecond pulsar SRGA J144459.2-604207
Bas Dorsman, Tuomo Salmi, Anna L. Watts +14
Pulse profile modelling via relativistic ray-tracing can constrain the system parameters of neutron stars, notably their mass and radius. Among these objects, accreting millisecond…
Einstein-Cartan pseudoscalaron inflation, reheating and nonthermal leptogenesis
Carlo Di Benedetto, Alessandro Di Marco, Emanuele Orazi +1
We study the postinflationary dynamics of an Einstein-Cartan-Holst gravity-motivated inflationary scenario, known as Einstein-Cartan pseudoscalaron inflation, coupled to a type-I s…
The hitchhiker's guide to the IXPE data analysis
Alessandro Di Marco
This chapter provides an almost comprehensive guide to the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) data analysis. The chapter briefly introduces the IXPE spacecraft and the instr…
In-flight performance of the IXPE telescopes
Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Enrico Costa, Sergio Fabiani +15
We present a comprehensive characterization of the on-orbit imaging performance of the three telescopes on board the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Each telescope compr…
A deep X-ray and UV look into the reflaring stage of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
Caterina Ballocco, Alessandro Papitto, Arianna Miraval Zanon +12
We present an X-ray and UV high-time-resolution monitoring of the final flaring phase of the 2022 outburst of the AMSP SAX J1808.4-3658, based on simultaneous XMM-Newton and HST ob…
X-ray Dips and Polarization Angle Swings in GX 13+1
Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca, Anna Bobrikova +8
We present the result from the April 2024 observation of the low-mass X-ray binary GX 13+1 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), together with NICER and Swift-XRT coo…
Multi-band study of the flaring mode emission in the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
M. C. Baglio, F. Coti Zelati, A. K. Hughes +17
We present a comprehensive study of the flaring mode of the transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) PSR J1023+0038 during its X-ray sub-luminous state, using strictly simultaneous X…
Disk reflection and energetics from the accreting millisecond pulsar SRGA J144459.2-604207
Christian Malacaria, Alessandro Papitto, Sergio Campana +11
Accreting millisecond pulsars (AMSPs) are excellent laboratories to study reflection spectra and their features from an accretion disk truncated by a rapidly rotating magnetosphere…
Polarized multiwavelength emission from pulsar wind - accretion disk interaction in a transitional millisecond pulsar
M. C. Baglio, F. Coti Zelati, A. Di Marco +17
Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) bridge the evolutionary gap between accreting neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars. These systems exhibit…
Introduction to the number of -folds in slow-roll inflation
Alessandro Di Marco, Emanuele Orazi, Gianfranco Pradisi
In this review, a pedagogical introduction to the concepts of slow-roll inflationary Universe and number of -folds is provided. In particular, the differences between the basic…
Discovery of Polarized X-Ray Emission from the Accreting Millisecond Pulsar SRGA J144459.2-604207
Alessandro Papitto, Alessandro Di Marco, Juri Poutanen +22
We report on the discovery of polarized X-ray emission from an accreting millisecond pulsar. During a 10-day-long coverage of the February 2024 outburst of SRGA J144459.2-604207, t…
X-ray and multiwavelength polarization of Mrk 501 from 2022 to 2023
Chien-Ting J. Chen, Ioannis Liodakis, Riccardo Middei +143
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 Pola…
Towards imaging-spectro-polarimetry of solar flares in the X-rays
Sergio Fabiani, John Rankin, Stefano Basso +19
X-ray polarimetry of solar flares is still a not well established field of observation of our star. Past polarimeters were not able to measure with a high significance the polariza…
The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission overview
Sergio Fabiani, Ettore Del Monte, Ilaria Baffo +35
The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a future CubeSat mission orbiting the Earth aimed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band, by mean…
The multiphysics analysis and design of CUSP, a two CubeSat constellation for Space Weather and Solar flares X-ray polarimetry
Giovanni Lombardi, Sergio Fabiani, Ettore Del Monte +38
The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project aims to develop a constellation of two CubeSats orbiting the Earth to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray…
The evaluation of the CUSP scientific performance by a GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation
Giovanni De Cesare, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Campana +35
The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a CubeSat mission orbiting the Earth aimed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a C…
Ultrasoft state of microquasar Cygnus X-3: X-ray polarimetry reveals the geometry of astronomical puzzle
Alexandra Veledina, Juri Poutanen, Anastasiia Bocharova +17
Cygnus X-3 is an enigmatic X-ray binary, that is both an exceptional accreting system and a cornerstone for the population synthesis studies. Prominent X-ray and radio properties f…
An IXPE-Led X-ray Spectro-Polarimetric Campaign on the Soft State of Cygnus X-1: X-ray Polarimetric Evidence for Strong Gravitational Lensing
James F. Steiner, Edward Nathan, Kun Hu +134
We present the first X-ray spectropolarimetric results for Cygnus X-1 in its soft state from a campaign of five IXPE observations conducted during 2023 May-June. Companion multiwav…