NS parameters from IXPE data of AMPs




Di Marco Alessandro, Papitto Alessandro, Pilia Maura, Poutanen Juri, Salmi Tuomo

Troja Eleonora, Baring Matthew G.

International Astronomical Union Symposium

2023

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Neutron Star Astrophysics at the Crossroads: Magnetars and the Multimessenger Revolution : Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 2020

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

S363

16

S363

329

331

978-1-108-49075-7

1743-9213

1743-9221

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921322000874

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921322000874



IXPE is a NASA/ASI Small Explorer Mission. It will probe the X-ray polarization properties of celestial sources. In particular, for Accretion-powered Millisecond Pulsars (AMPs), IXPE can provide us with unique information on their geometry. These information together with pulse shape modelling will strongly boost the achievable sensitivity on measuring the AMPs mass and the radius. As a case-study, we simulated an observation of SAXJ1808.4-3658 and studied the accuracy that can be achieved in the measured time-dependent Stokes profiles. From these data we estimated how well IXPE will be able to constraint NS geometrical parameters, such as the inclination and hot-spot co-latitude angles.



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