DOI

  • Riccardo Middei
  • Alan P. Marscher
  • Ioannis Liodakis
  • Matteo Perri
  • Alessandro Maselli
  • Stefano Ciprini
  • Emanuele Nardini
  • Simonetta Puccetti
  • Laura Di Gesu
  • Iván Agudo
  • Dawoon E. Kim
  • Ioannis Myserlis
  • A. Trindade Falcão
  • D. Ł. Król
  • Lucio A. Antonelli
  • Tommaso Aniello
  • Pouya M. Kouch
  • Kari Nilsson
  • Elina Lindfors
  • Tapio Pursimo
  • Francisco José Aceituno
  • Víctor Casanova
  • Gabriel Emery
  • Juan Escudero Pedrosa
  • Jorge Otero-Santos
  • Alfredo Sota
  • Vilppu Piirola
  • George A. Borman
  • Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn
  • Alexey V. Zhovtan
  • Petra Benke
  • Lena Debbrecht
  • Julia Eich
  • Florian Eppel
  • Andrea Gokus
  • Steven Hämmerich
  • Jonas Hessdörfer
  • Matthias Kadler
  • Dana Kirchner
  • Georgios F. Paraschos
  • Florian Rösch
  • Wladislaw Schulga
  • Mark Gurwell
  • Garrett Keating
  • Ramprasad Rao
  • Emmanouil Angelakis
  • Alexander Kraus
  • Beatriz Agís-González
  • Dmitry Blinov
  • Anastasia Glykopoulou
  • Sara Capecchiacci
  • Alberto Floris
  • Panagiotis Fotis
  • Alkmini Koukoutsi
  • John A. Kypriotakis
  • Dimitrios A. Langis
  • Dimitrios Rompogiannakis
  • Aristeidis Polychronakis
  • Vasiliki Tsioupli
  • Stavros Vogiatzis
  • Orestis Zoumpoulakis
  • Sumie Tochihara
  • Ryo Imazawa
  • Mahito Sasada
  • Yasushi Fukazawa
  • Koji S. Kawabata
  • Makoto Uemura
  • Tsunefumi Mizuno
  • Tatsuya Nakaoka
  • Hiroshi Akitaya
  • Takahiro Akai
We report on a nine-month monitoring campaign of the blazar PG 1553+113, relying on three observations carried out in 2025 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and supported by multiwavelength facilities. The source displayed pronounced variability across the electromagnetic spectrum, with X-ray flux changes by up to a factor of ∼5 and complex evolution of the optical polarization properties, including one of the largest (exceeding 150°) and fastest rotations in the electric vector position angle (EVPA) ever recorded. This swing of the EVPA was also accompanied by a temporary drop of the optical polarization degree to nearly zero. Significant X-ray polarization was observed during the third IXPE pointing, with a polarization degree ΠX  = (18.4 ± 5.8)% and ΨX  =  74° ± 9° in the 2–8 keV band, while only upper limits were obtained in the first two epochs. The optical data show that the second IXPE observation occurred shortly after a dramatic optical polarization event characterized by a rapid EVPA swing and strong depolarization. Two possible scenarios may explain the broadband polarimetric behavior: (i) the superposition of two emitting regions with nearly orthogonal magnetic field configurations and variable relative contributions, and (ii) the interaction of a single emitting region with a shock that temporarily reorders the magnetic field. In both cases, the data support a picture in which the X-ray and optical emissions arise from closely related but not strictly cospatial regions within a dynamically evolving, magnetically structured jet.
Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи130
Число страниц14
ЖурналThe Astrophysical Journal
Том1004
Номер выпуска1
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 9 июн 2026

ID: 156049627