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  • Herman L. Marshall
  • Mason Ng
  • Daniele Rogantini
  • Jeremy Heyl
  • Sergey S. Tsygankov
  • Juri Poutanen
  • Enrico Costa
  • Silvia Zane
  • Christian Malacaria
  • Iván Agudo
  • Lucio A. Antonelli
  • Matteo Bachetti
  • Luca Baldini
  • Wayne H. Baumgartner
  • Ronaldo Bellazzini
  • Stefano Bianchi
  • Stephen D. Bongiorno
  • Raffaella Bonino
  • Alessandro Brez
  • Niccolò Bucciantini
  • Fiamma Capitanio
  • Simone Castellano
  • Elisabetta Cavazzuti
  • Stefano Ciprini
  • Alessandra De Rosa
  • Ettore Del Monte
  • Laura Di Gesu
  • Niccolò Di Lalla
  • Alessandro Di Marco
  • Immacolata Donnarumma
  • Victor Doroshenko
  • Michal Dovčiak
  • Steven R. Ehlert
  • Teruaki Enoto
  • Yuri Evangelista
  • Sergio Fabiani
  • Riccardo Ferrazzoli
  • Javier A. Garcia
  • Shuichi Gunji
  • Kiyoshi Hayashida
  • Wataru Iwakiri
  • Vladimir Karas
  • Takao Kitaguchi
  • Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak
  • Henric Krawczynski
  • Fabio La Monaca
  • Luca Latronico
  • Ioannis Liodakis
  • Simone Maldera
  • Alberto Manfreda
  • Frédéric Marin
  • Andrea Marinucci
  • Alan P. Marscher
  • Giorgio Matt
  • Ikuyuki Mitsuishi
  • Tsunefumi Mizuno
  • Fabio Muleri
  • C.-Y. Ng
  • Stephen L. O’Dell
  • Nicola Omodei
  • Chiara Oppedisano
  • Alessandro Papitto
  • George G. Pavlov
  • Abel L. Peirson
  • Matteo Perri
  • Melissa Pesce-Rollins
  • Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
  • Maura Pilia
  • Andrea Possenti
  • Simonetta Puccetti
  • Brian D. Ramsey
  • John Rankin
  • Ajay Ratheesh
  • Roger W. Romani
  • Carmelo Sgrò
  • Patrick Slane
  • Paolo Soffitta
  • Gloria Spandre
  • Toru Tamagawa
  • Fabrizio Tavecchio
  • Roberto Taverna
  • Yuzuru Tawara
  • Allyn F. Tennant
  • Nicholas E. Thomas
  • Francesco Tombesi
  • Alessio Trois
  • Roberto Turolla
  • Jacco Vink
  • Martin C. Weisskopf
  • Kinwah Wu
  • Fei Xie
  • (IXPE Collaboration)
  • Norbert S. Schulz
  • Deepto Chakrabarty
We present measurements of the polarization of X-rays in the 2–8 keV band from the pulsar in the ultracompact low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1626–67 using data from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The 7.66 s pulsations were clearly detected throughout the IXPE observations as well as in the NICER soft X-ray observations, which we used as the basis for our timing analysis and to constrain the spectral shape over the 0.4–10 keV energy band. Chandra HETGS high-resolution X-ray spectra were also obtained near the times of the IXPE observations for firm spectral modeling. We found an upper limit on the pulse-averaged linear polarization of <4% (at 95% confidence). Similarly, there was no significant detection of polarized flux in pulse phase intervals when subdividing the bandpass by energy. However, spectropolarimetric modeling over the full bandpass in pulse phase intervals provided a marginal detection of polarization of the power-law spectral component at the 4.8% ± 2.3% level (90% confidence). We discuss the implications concerning the accretion geometry onto the pulsar, favoring two-component models of the pulsed emission.
Язык оригиналаанглийский
ЖурналThe Astrophysical Journal
Том940
Номер выпуска1
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СостояниеОпубликовано - 2022

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