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

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The First X-Ray Polarimetry of an Eclipsing Low-Mass X-Ray Binary: Serendipitous IXPE Observation of AX J1745.6-2901

Romana Mikušincová, Lorenzo Marra, Hemanth Manikantan +38

We present the first X-ray polarimetric measurement of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary system AX J1745.6-2901 conducted by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) sate…

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.HE2025★ 1 cited

Pulse profile modelling of the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using NICER data from its 2019 and 2022 outbursts

Bas Dorsman, Tuomo Salmi, Anna L. Watts +5

Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that has provided constraints on parameters, with a focus on mass and radius, of five rotation-powered millisecond p…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Probing the polarized emission from the accretion-powered pulsar 4U 1907+09 with IXPE

Menglei Zhou, Lorenzo Ducci, Honghui Liu +12

We present observations of the accretion-powered X-ray pulsar (XRP) 4U 1907+09, conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) that delivers the first high-quality po…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

IXPE view of the Sco-like source GX 349+2 in the normal branch

Fabio La Monaca, Anna Bobrikova, Juri Poutanen +6

We present a detailed spectropolarimetric study of the Sco-like Z-source GX 349+2, simultaneously observed with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Nuclear Spectrosco…

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

Exploring polarization and geometry in the X-ray pulsar 4U 1538-52

Vladislav Loktev, Sofia V. Forsblom, Sergey S. Tsygankov +12

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations of accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) continue to provide novel insights into the physics and geometry of these sources. We p…

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The very high X-ray polarisation of accreting black hole IGRJ17091-3624 in the hard state

Melissa Ewing, Maxime Parra, Guglielmo Mastroserio +26

We report the first detection of the X-ray polarisation of the transient black hole X-ray binary IGRJ17091-3624 taken with the Imaging X-ray polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in March 20…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Modelling polarized X-ray pulses from accreting millisecond pulsars with X-PSI, using different hot spot locations and shapes

Tuomo Salmi, Bas Dorsman, Anna L. Watts +7

We present an analysis of polarized X-ray pulses based on simulated data for accreting millisecond pulsars (AMPs). We used the open-source X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference code…