Clues on the X-ray emission mechanism of blazars PKS 2155$-$304 and 3C 454.3 through polarization studies

Athira M Bharathan, C S Stalin, Sunder Sahayanathan +1

X-ray polarization measurable with the imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (\textit{IXPE}) could constrain the long-debated leptonic versus hadronic origin of the high-energy compon…