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Discovery of minute-scale polarization angle rotation in a supermassive black hole jet
Aristeidis Polychronakis, Ioannis Liodakis, Dmitry Blinov +7
Relativistic jets from supermassive black holes oriented towards our line of sight called blazars have puzzled the astronomical community for decades. Their fast jets and preferent…
Laser Metrology for Precision Alignment of Transmission Gratings in the REDSoX Soft X-ray Polarimeter
Swati Ravi, Alan Garner, Jill Juneau +4
The Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter (REDSoX) is a NASA sounding-rocket mission designed to perform the first astrophysical spectropolarimetry in the 0.2…
A new NASA Pioneer: the Globe Orbiting Soft X-ray Polarimeter (GOSoX)
Herman L Marshall, Sarah N T Heine, Alan Garner +16
The Globe Orbiting Soft X-ray Polarimeter (GOSoX) is a spectropolarimeter for the soft X-ray band. GOSoX is based on the Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter…
Design and testing progress towards the first flight of the rocket experiment demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter (REDSoX)
Sarah N. T. Heine, Herman L. Marshall, Alan Garner +11
The Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter (REDSoX) is a NASA-funded, sounding rocket mission. The rocket payload will measure polarization strength and direct…
X-Ray Polarization from the Atoll 4U 1735-44 Suggests a Low Inclination
M. A. Díaz Teodori, A. Bobrikova, A. Gnarini +17
X-ray polarimetry is a new tool capable of probing the geometry of accretion onto weakly magnetized neutron stars. Here we present the first X-ray spectropolarimetric results from…
A clean broad iron line in GS 1354--64 as seen by XRISM
Honghui Liu, Lingda Kong, Oluwashina K. Adegoke +13
We present a spectroscopic analysis of XRISM and NuSTAR observations of the black hole X-ray binary GS~1354--64 during its 2026 outburst. A total number of 3.5 million photons are…
Discovery of Strong Energy-Dependent X-ray Polarization in the Intermediate State of GS 1354-64
Swati Ravi, Lorenzo Marra, James F. Steiner +20
We report the discovery of significant X-ray polarization from the dynamically confirmed black hole X-ray binary (BHXB) GS 1354-64 during its 2025-2026 outburst, obtained with the…
Discovery of High X-Ray Polarization from the Neutron Star Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Cyg X-2 in the Horizontal Branch
Andrea Gnarini, Swati Ravi, Philip Kaaret +17
We present results from simultaneous X-ray polarimetric and spectroscopic observations of the bright neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Cyg X-2, performed by the Imaging X-ray Pola…
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…
First X-ray and radio polarimetry of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 17+2
Unnati Kashyap, Thomas J. Maccarone, Eliot C. Pattie +5
We report the first polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Z-source GX 17+2 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and the Very Lar…
X-ray Polarimetry of Accreting White Dwarfs: A Case Study of EX Hydrae
Sean J. Gunderson, Swati Ravi, Herman L. Marshall +5
We present the first first X-ray polarization measurements of a white dwarf, the intermediate polar EX Hya. We measured significant polarization only in the 2 -- 3 keV energy band…
What's the Buzz About GX 13+1? Constraining Coronal Geometry with QUEEN-BEE: A Bayesian Nested Sampling Framework for X-ray Polarization Rotation Analysis
Swati Ravi, Mason Ng, Herman L. Marshall +1
Observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have revealed electric vector position angle (EVPA) rotation in several neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries, includ…
X-ray and radio polarimetry of the neutron star low mass X-ray binary GX 13+1
Unnati Kashyap, Thomas J. Maccarone, Eliot C. Pattie +3
We report the X-ray and radio polarization study of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) GX 13+1 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Very Large Ar…
Exploring MAXI J1744-294: IXPE insights into a Newly Discovered X-ray Transient
Lorenzo Marra, Romana Mikušincová, Federico M. Vincentelli +33
We present the first IXPE spectro-polarimetric observation of the black hole candidate MAXI J1744294, a transient X-ray source discovered during a bright 2025 outburst in the Ga…
X-ray polarization study of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 349+2
Unnati Kashyap, Thomas J. Maccarone, Mason Ng +3
We report the first X-ray polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Z-source GX 349+2 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We disco…
X-ray spectro-polarimetry analysis of the weakly magnetized neutron star X-ray binary GX 9+1
Antonella Tarana, Fiamma Capitanio, Andrea Gnarini +14
We present an X-ray spectro-polarimetric study of the weakly magnetized neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 9+1, utilizing data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)…
X-ray and radio polarimetry of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34
Unnati Kashyap, Thomas J. Maccarone, Thomas D. Russell +4
We report the first X-ray and radio polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) atoll-source 4U 1728-34 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer…
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…
Exploring the Future of Soft X-ray Polarimetry: the Capabilities of the REDSoX Instrument for XDINS and Magnetar Studies
Ruth M. E. Kelly, Herman L. Marshall, Silvia Zane +5
X-ray polarimetry offers a unique window into neutron star physics and can provide answers to questions that cannot otherwise be probed. The up-and-coming REDSoX sounding rocket mi…
First spectropolarimetric observation of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 3+1
Andrea Gnarini, Ruben Farinelli, Francesco Ursini +11
We report the first simultaneous X-ray spectropolarimetric observation of the bright atoll neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 3+1, performed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Exp…
X-ray and Radio Campaign of the Z-source GX 340+0 II: the X-ray polarization in the normal branch
Yash Bhargava, Thomas D. Russell, Mason Ng +11
We present the first X-ray polarization measurement of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z-source, GX 3400, in the normal branch (NB) using a 200 ks observation with th…
X-ray spectropolarimetry of the bright atoll Serpens X-1
F. Ursini, A. Gnarini, S. Bianchi +11
We present simultaneous X-ray polarimetric and spectral observations of the bright atoll source Ser~X-1 carried out with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), NICER, and N…
A second view on the X-ray polarization of NGC 4151 with IXPE
V. E. Gianolli, S. Bianchi, E. Kammoun +21
We report on the second observing program of the active galactic nucleus NGC 4151 with simultaneous Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE; {\sim}750 ks), NuSTAR ({\sim}60 ks), X…
Probing the polarized emission from SMC X-1: the brightest X-ray pulsar observed by IXPE
Sofia V. Forsblom, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Juri Poutanen +101
Recent observations of X-ray pulsars (XRPs) performed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have made it possible to investigate the intricate details of these objects i…