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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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cs.LG2026

CHASE: Channel-Aligned Structure Exploitation for Geometry-Aware Model Engineering

Wei Wang, Wei Jiang, Ziran Liu

Geometric and Spectral Alignment (GSA) characterizes trained networks through spectral concentration, physical-channel alignment, support structure, and changes in singular bases.…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

NuSTAR's Intentional Stray Light Observation of Scorpious X-1

S. Li, R. M. Ludlam, M. Sudha +8

We present the first spectral analysis of Scorpius X-1 (Sco X-1) using intentional stray light (SL) observations taken by NuSTAR. Unlike focused observations that have high telemet…

astro-ph.HE2026

Magnetic-field Order in the Southwestern Rim of RCW 86 Constrained Using X-Ray Polarimetry

Stefano Silvestri, Dmitry Prokhorov, Jacco Vink +97

RCW 86 is a supernova remnant whose origin has recently been linked to an off-center explosion within a cavity created by its progenitor star. In the southwestern region, the forwa…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Highly Polarized Intrinsic Emission and its Orthogonal Counterpart in Vela X-1

WanYun Wu, Fei Xie, Long Ji +2

Vela X-1 is one of the most archetypal wind-fed X-ray pulsars (XRPs), and the emergence of its orthogonal polarization states reveals distinctive polarimetric properties. Using dat…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Mitigating Polarization Leakage in Gas Pixel Detectors through Hybrid Machine Learning and Analytic Event Reconstruction

Nicoló Cibrario, Michela Negro, Raffaella Bonino +18

Spatially resolved polarization measurements of extended X-ray sources are expanding our understanding of the emission mechanisms and magnetic field properties involved. Such measu…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Telescope Calibration of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Brian Ramsey, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Wayne Baumgartner +27

Fifty years after the very first sounding rocket measurement of cosmic X-ray polarization, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission has effectively opened a new window…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Spatially resolved polarization variation of the Crab Nebula

Chao Zuo, Fei Xie, Mingyu Ge +6

We examined the spatially resolved polarization variations in the Crab Nebula over 2 yr, using observational data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, and offer key insight…

astro-ph.HE2025

First X-ray polarimetric view of a Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus: the case of NGC 2110

Sudip Chakraborty, Ajay Ratheesh, Daniele Tagliacozzo +20

Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGN) provides a unique view of Comptonization and non-thermal emission from accreting black holes in the low-accretion rate regime. However…

astro-ph.SR2024

Comparison between the emission torus and the measured toroidal magnetic field for the Crab and Vela nebula

Wei Deng, Fei Xie, Kuan Liu +5

Polarization measurements provide insight into the magnetic field, a critical aspect of the dynamics and emission properties around the compact object. In this paper, we present th…

astro-ph.HE2024

The IXPE View of Neutron Star Low-Mass X-ray Binaries

Francesco Ursini, Andrea Gnarini, Fiamma Capitanio +9

Low-mass X-ray binaries hosting weakly magnetized neutron stars (NS-LMXBs) are among the brightest sources in the X-ray sky. Since 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXP…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 14 cited

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…

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★ 24 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 14 cited

Discovery of a shock-compressed magnetic field in the north-western rim of the young supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with X-ray polarimetry

Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Dmitry Prokhorov, Niccolò Bucciantini +99

Supernova remnants (SNRs) provide insights into cosmic-ray acceleration and magnetic field dynamics at shock fronts. Recent X-ray polarimetric measurements by the Imaging X-ray Pol…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 21 cited

New polarimetric study of the galactic X-ray burster GX 13+1

Anna Bobrikova, Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca +3

Weakly magnetized neutron stars (WMNS) are complicated sources with challenging phenomenology. For decades, they have been studied via spectrometry and timing. It has been establis…

astro-ph.HE2024

First detection of polarization in X-rays for PSR B0540-69 and its nebula

Fei Xie, Josephine Wong, Fabio La Monaca +100

We report on X-ray polarization measurements of the extra-galactic Crab-like PSR B0540-69 and its Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using a ~850 ks Imag…

astro-ph.HE2024

X-Ray Polarimetry of the Dipping Accreting Neutron Star 4U 1624-49

M. Lynne Saade, Philip Kaaret, Andrea Gnarini +98

We present the first X-ray polarimetric study of the dipping accreting neutron star 4U 162449 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We report a detection of polari…

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★ 22 cited

Discovery of a strong rotation of the X-ray polarization angle in the galactic burster GX 13+1

Anna Bobrikova, Sofia V. Forsblom, Alessandro Di Marco +106

Weakly magnetized neutron stars in X-ray binaries show complex phenomenology with several spectral components that can be associated with the accretion disk, boundary and/or spread…