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most citedThe enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP

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astro-ph.IM2026

Unlocking the Future of X-Ray Polarimetry with IXPE: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Costa, Ettore Del Monte +7

This paper discusses issues encountered during the early development of the instrument on the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA ASI Small Explorer mission launched…

astro-ph.HE2025

Super-Eddington Accretion Geometry: a Remarkable Stability of the Hidden Ultraluminous X-Ray Source Cygnus X-3

Romana Mikušincová, Alexandra Veledina, Fabio Muleri +112

We report on the average and orbital phase-resolved polarization of Cyg X-3 in the hard state during the 2023 Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observational campaign. We f…

astro-ph.SR2025

Solar Flare Hard X-ray Polarimetry with the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission

Nicolas De Angelis, Andrea Alimenti, Davide Albanesi +43

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a CubeSat mission planned for a launch in low-Earth orbit and aimed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X…

astro-ph.HE2025

Polarization of reflected X-ray emission from the Sgr A molecular complex: multiple flares, multiple sources?

Ildar Khabibullin, Eugene Churazov, Riccardo Ferrazzoli +100

The extended X-ray emission observed in the direction of several molecular clouds in the central molecular zone of our Galaxy exhibits spectral and temporal properties consistent w…

astro-ph.HE2025

X-ray Polarization Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in G21.5-0.9 with IXPE

Niccolò Di Lalla, Nicola Omodei, Niccolò Bucciantini +98

We present the X-ray polarization observation of G21.5-0.9, a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in October 2023,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 15 cited

High optical to X-ray polarization ratio reveals Compton scattering in BL Lacertae's jet

Ivan Agudo, Ioannis Liodakis, Jorge Otero-Santos +147

Blazars, supermassive black hole systems (SMBHs) with highly relativistic jets aligned with the line of sight, are the most powerful long-lived emitters of electromagnetic emission…