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most citedPolarized x-rays constrain the disk-jet geometry in the black hole x-ray binary Cygnus X-1

173 citations · 568 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Failed jet breakout in the metal-poor broad-lined type Ic supernova 2026gzf

Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Christina C. Thöne, James K. Leung +103

A long-standing question in the death of massive stars is the role of relativistic jets. While many gamma-ray bursts and some fast X-ray transients seem to be associated with broad…

astro-ph.HE2026

GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk: A Multi-Wavelength Study of a Nearby Underluminous Long GRB and SN with a Complex Afterglow

Ramandeep Gill, Rosa L. Becerra, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo +54

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk, a nearby (), long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an exceptionally underluminous prompt…

astro-ph.HE2025

Intra-night optical polarization monitoring of blazars

Aristeidis Polychronakis, Ioannis Liodakis, Anastasia Glykopoulou +20

Blazars are known for their extreme variability across the electromagnetic spectrum. Variability at very short timescales can push the boundaries between competing models offering…

astro-ph.GA2025

Evidence for cloud-to-cloud variations in the ratio of polarized thermal dust emission to starlight polarization

Nidhi Mehandiratta, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Eirik Gjerløw +12

The correlation between optical starlight polarization and polarized thermal dust emission can be used to infer intrinsic dust properties. This correlation is quantified by the rat…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 9 cited

Variability of X-ray polarization of Cyg X-1

Vadim Kravtsov, Anastasiia Bocharova, Alexandra Veledina +31

We present the results of a three-year X-ray, optical, and radio polarimetric monitoring campaign of the prototypical black hole X-ray binary Cyg X-1, conducted from 2022 to 2024.…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Guitar's Magnetic Field Revealed by Starlight Polarization

Jack T. Dinsmore, Roger W. Romani

The Guitar nebula surrounding PSR B2224+65 boasts a pulsar X-ray filament likely aligned with the local magnetic field. We present new RoboPol stellar polarization data distributed…

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.GA2024★ 23 cited

The first degree-scale starlight-polarization-based tomography map of the magnetized interstellar medium

V. Pelgrims, N. Mandarakas, R. Skalidis +21

We present the first degree-scale tomography map of the dusty magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) from stellar polarimetry and distance measurements. We used the RoboPol polarimet…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 33 cited

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

Manel Errando, Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher +142

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 g…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 19 cited

Insights into the broad-band emission of the TeV blazar Mrk 501 during the first X-ray polarization measurements

S. Abe, J. Abhir, V. A. Acciari +260

We present the first multi-wavelength study of Mrk 501 including very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations simultaneous to X-ray polarization measurements from the Imaging X-ra…

astro-ph.HE2023

First characterization of the emission behavior of Mrk421 from radio to VHE gamma rays with simultaneous X-ray polarization measurements

S. Abe, J. Abhir, V. A. Acciari +250

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 ex…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Observations of Low and Intermediate Spectral Peak Blazars with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Herman L. Marshall, Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher +145

We present X-ray polarimetry observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) of three low spectral peak and one intermediate spectral peak blazars, namely 3C 273, 3…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 43 cited

Magnetic Field Properties inside the Jet of Mrk 421: Multiwavelength Polarimetry Including the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Dawoon E. Kim, Laura Di Gesu, Ioannis Liodakis +133

We conducted a polarimetry campaign from radio to X-ray wavelengths of the high-synchrotron-peak (HSP) blazar Mrk 421, including Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) measureme…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 12 cited

The RoboPol sample of optical polarimetric standards

D. Blinov, S. Maharana, F. Bouzelou +34

Optical polarimeters are typically calibrated using measurements of stars with known and stable polarization parameters. However, there is a lack of such stars available across the…

astro-ph.HE2023

Discovery of X-ray polarization angle rotation in active galaxy Mrk 421

Laura Di Gesu, Herman L. Marshall, Steven R. Ehlert +140

The magnetic field conditions in astrophysical relativistic jets can be probed by multiwavelength polarimetry, which has been recently extended to X-rays. For example, one can trac…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Polarimetry of the potential binary supermassive black hole system in J1430+2303

F. Marin, D. Hutsemékers, I. Liodakis +6

The growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) through merging has long been predicted but its detection remains elusive. However, a promising target has been discovered in the Sey…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 44 cited

X-ray Polarization Observations of BL Lacertae

Riccardo Middei, Ioannis Liodakis, Matteo Perri +143

Blazars are a class of jet-dominated active galactic nuclei with a typical double-humped spectral energy distribution. It is of common consensus the Synchrotron emission to be resp…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 19 cited

Optical polarization from colliding stellar stream shocks in a tidal disruption event

I. Liodakis, K. I. I. Koljonen, D. Blinov +9

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star. Part of the stellar material falls toward the black hole, forming an accretion disk…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 7 cited

GRB 210619B optical afterglow polarization

N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, D. R. Aguilera-Dena +7

We report on the follow-up of the extremely bright long gamma-ray burst GRB~210619B with optical polarimetry. We conducted optopolarimetric observations of the optical afterglow of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 25 cited

Starlight-polarization-based tomography of the magnetized interstellar medium: PASIPHAE's line-of-sight inversion method

V. Pelgrims, G. V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis +20

We present the first Bayesian method for tomographic decomposition of the plane-of-sky orientation of the magnetic field with the use of stellar polarimetry and distance. This stan…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 173 cited

Polarized x-rays constrain the disk-jet geometry in the black hole x-ray binary Cygnus X-1

Henric Krawczynski, Fabio Muleri, Michal Dovčiak +111

A black hole x-ray binary (XRB) system forms when gas is stripped from a normal star and accretes onto a black hole, which heats the gas sufficiently to emit x-rays. We report a po…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

HI-H transition: exploring the role of the magnetic field

R. Skalidis, K. Tassis, G. V. Panopoulou +6

Atomic gas in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) is organized in filamentary structures. These structures usually host cold and dense molecular clumps. The Galactic magnetic fie…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 23 cited

SMILE: Search for MIlli-LEnses

C. Casadio, D. Blinov, A. C. S. Readhead +17

Dark Matter (DM) halos with masses below , which would help to discriminate between DM models, may be detected through their gravitational effect on distant…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 10 cited

Local alignments of parsec-scale AGN radiojets

N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, C. Casadio +4

Context.Coherence in the characteristics of neighboring sources in 2D and 3D space may suggest the existence of large-scale cosmic structures, which are useful for cosmological stu…