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Observations of Low and Intermediate Spectral Peak Blazars with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer




AuthorsMarshall, Herman L.; Liodakis, Ioannis; Marscher, Alan P.; Di, Lalla Niccolò; Jorstad, Svetlana G.; Kim, Dawoon E.; Middei, Riccardo; Negro, Michela; Omodei, Nicola; Peirson, Abel L.; Perri, Matteo; Puccetti, Simonetta; Laurenti, Marco; Agudo, Iván; Bonnoli, Giacomo; Berdyugin, Andrei V.; Cavazzuti, Elisabetta; Rodriguez, Cavero Nicole; Donnarumma, Immacolata; Di, Gesu Laura; Jormanainen, Jenni; Krawczynski, Henric; Lindfors, Elina; Madjeski, Greg; Marin, Frédéric; Massaro, Francesco; Pacciani, Luigi; Poutanen, Juri; Tavecchio, Fabrizio; Kouch, Pouya M.; Aceituno, Francisco José; Bernardos, Maria I.; Casanova, Víctor; García-Comas, Maya; Agís-González, Beatriz; Husillos, César; Marchini, Alessandro; Sota, Alfredo; Blinov, Dmitry; Bourbah, Ioakeim G.; Kielhmann, Sebastian; Kontopodis, Evangelos; Mandarakas, Nikos; Romanopoulos, Stylianos; Skalidis, Raphael; Vervelaki, Anna; Borman, George A.; Kopatskaya, Evgenia N.; Larionova, Elena G.; Morozova, Daria A.; Savchenko, Sergey S.; Vasilyev, Andrey A.; Zhovtan, Alexey V.; Casadio, Carolina; Escudero, Juan; Kramer, Joana; Myserlis, Ioannis; Trainou, Efthalia; Imazawa, Ryo; Sasada, Mahito; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Kawabata, Koji S.; Uemura, Makoto; Mizuno, Tsunefumi; Nakaoka, Tatsuya; Akitaya, Hiroshi; Masiero, Joseph R.; Mawet, Dimitri; Panopoulou, Georgia V.; Tinyanont, Samaporn; Kagitani, Masato; Kravtsov, Vadim; Sakanoi, Takeshi; Dattolo, Matthew; Gurwell, Mark; Keating, Garrett; Rao, Ramprasad; Cheong, Whee Yeon; Jeong, Hyeon-Woo; Kang, Sincheol; Kim, Sang-Hyun; Lee, Sang-Sung; Angelakis, Emmanouil; Kraus, Alexander; Hales, Antonio; Kameno, Seiji; Kneissl, Ruediger; Messias, Hugo; Nagai, Hiroshi; Antonelli, Lucio A.; Bachetti, Matteo; Baldini, Luca; Baumgartner, Wayne H.; Bellazzini, Ronaldo; Bianchi, Stefano; Bongiorno, Stephen D.; Bonino, Raffaella; Brez, Alessandro; Bucciantini, Niccolò; Capitanio, Fiamma; Castellano, Simone; Chen, Chen-Ting; Ciprini, Stefano; Costa, Enrico; De, Rosa Alessandra; Del, Monte Ettore; Di, Marco Alessandro; Doroshenko, Victor; Dovčiak, Michal; Ehlert, Steven R.; Enoto, Teruaki; Evangelista, Yuri; Fabiani, Sergio; Ferrazzoli, Riccardo; Garcia, Javier A.; Gunji, Shuichi; Hayashida, Kiyoshi; Heyl, Jeremy; Iwakiri, Wataru; Kaaret, Philip; Karas, Vladimir; Kislat, Fabian; Kitaguchi, Takao; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J.; La, Monaca Fabio; Latronico, Luca; Maldera, Simone; Manfreda, Alberto; Marinucci, Andrea; Matt, Giorgio; Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki; Muleri, Fabio; Ng, C.-Y.; O’Dell, Stephen L.; Oppedisano, Chiara; Papitto, Alessandro; Pavlov, George G.; Pesce-Rollins, Melissa; Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier; Pilia, Maura; Possenti, Andrea; Ramsey, Brian D.; Rankin, John; Ratheesh, Ajay; Roberts, Oliver J.; Romani, Roger W.; Sgrò, Carmelo; Slane, Patrick; Soffitta, Paolo; Spandre, Gloria; Swartz, Douglas A.; Tamagawa, Toru; Taverna, Roberto; Tawara, Yuzuru; Tennant, Allyn F.; Thomas, Nicholas E.; Tombesi, Francesco; Trois, Alessio; Tsygankov, Sergey S.; Turolla, Roberto; Vink, Jacco; Weisskopf, Martin C.; Wu, Kinwah; Xie, Fei; Zane, Silvia

PublisherAmerican Astronomical Society

Publication year2024

JournalAstrophysical Journal

Journal name in sourceThe Astrophysical Journal

Article number74

Volume972

Issue1

ISSN0004-637X

eISSN1538-4357

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5671

Web address https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5671

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/458480656


Abstract
We present X-ray polarimetry observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) of three low spectral peak and one intermediate spectral peak blazars, namely 3C 273, 3C 279, 3C 454.3, and S5 0716+714. For none of these objects was IXPE able to detect X-ray polarization at the 3σ level. However, we placed upper limits on the polarization degree at ∼10%-30%. The undetected polarizations favor models where the X-ray band is dominated by unpolarized photons upscattered by relativistic electrons in the jets of blazars, although hadronic models are not completely eliminated. We discuss the X-ray polarization upper limits in the context of our contemporaneous multiwavelength polarization campaigns.

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