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most citedNine-hour X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from a low-mass black hole galactic nucleus

295 citations · 682 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Polarization echoes from past nuclear activity in the quasi-periodic eruption source GSN 069

B. Agís-González, D. Hutsemékers, I. Liodakis +8

Context. X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeating, high-amplitude, soft X-ray bursts observed from the nuclei of a dozen nearby low-mass galaxies. Their origin remains a…

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.HE2025

Polarimetric Diversity in Tidal Disruption Events: Comparative Study of Low-Polarised sources with AT2020mot

A. Floris, I. Liodakis, K. I. I. Koljonen +13

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is disrupted by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), producing bright multi-wavelength flares. Among these events,…

astro-ph.HE2025

Unveiling blazar synchrotron emission: a multiwavelength polarimetric study of HSP and LSP populations

Sara Capecchiacci, Ioannis Liodakis, Riccardo Middei +96

Polarimetric properties of blazars allow us to put constraints on the acceleration mechanisms that fuel their powerful jets. By studying the multiwavelength polarimetric behaviour…

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

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.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.HE2023★ 1 cited

IXPE and multi-wavelength observations of blazar PG 1553+113 reveal an orphan optical polarization swing

Riccardo Middei, Matteo Perri, Simonetta Puccetti +119

The lower energy peak of the spectral energy distribution of blazars has commonly been ascribed to synchrotron radiation from relativistic particles in the jets. Despite the consen…

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.HE2023★ 45 cited

X-ray Polarization of BL Lacertae in Outburst

Abel L. Peirson, Michela Negro, Ioannis Liodakis +128

We report the first confidence detection of X-ray polarization in BL Lacertae. During a recent X-ray/-ray outburst, a 287 ksec observation (2022 November 27-30) was tak…

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★ 140 cited

Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Agudo +125

Most of the light from blazars, active galactic nuclei with jets of magnetized plasma that point nearly along the line of sight, is produced by high-energy particles, up to $\sim 1…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 295 cited

Nine-hour X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from a low-mass black hole galactic nucleus

G. Miniutti, R. D. Saxton, M. Giustini +11

In the past two decades, high amplitude electromagnetic outbursts have been detected from dormant galaxies and often attributed to the tidal disruption of a star by the central bla…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 63 cited

The properties of the clumpy torus and BLR in the polar-scattered Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO 323-G77 through X-ray absorption variability

G. Miniutti, M. Sanfrutos, T. Beuchert +8

We report results from multi-epoch X-ray observations of the polar-scattered Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO 323-G77. The source exhibits remarkable spectral variability from months to years…