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The detection of polarized x-ray emission from the magnetar 1E 2259+586

Jeremy Heyl·Roberto Taverna·Roberto Turolla·Gian Luca Israel·Mason Ng·Demet Kirmizibayrak·Denis González-Caniulef·Ilaria Caiazzo·Silvia Zane·Steven R. Ehlert·Michela Negro·Iván Agudo·Lucio Angelo 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·Chien-Ting Chen·Stefano Ciprini·Enrico Costa·Alessandra De Rosa·Ettore Del Monte·Laura Di Gesu·Niccolò Di Lalla·Alessandro Di Marco·Immacolata Donnarumma·Victor Doroshenko·Michal Dovčiak·Teruaki Enoto·Yuri Evangelista·Sergio Fabiani·Riccardo Ferrazzoli·Javier A. Garcia·Shuichi Gunji·Kiyoshi Hayashida·Wataru Iwakiri·Svetlana G. Jorstad·Philip Kaaret·Vladimir Karas·Fabian Kislat·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·Herman L. Marshall·Francesco Massaro·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 Lawrence Peirson·Matteo Perri·Melissa Pesce-Rollins·Pierre-Olivier Petrucci·Maura Pilia·Andrea Possenti·Juri Poutanen·Simonetta Puccetti·Brian D. Ramsey·John Rankin·Ajay Ratheesh·Oliver J. Roberts·Roger W. Romani·Carmelo Sgrò·Patrick Slane·Paolo Soffitta·Gloria Spandre·Douglas A. Swartz·Toru Tamagawa·Fabrizio Tavecchio·Yuzuru Tawara·Allyn F. Tennant·Nicholas E. Thomas·Francesco Tombesi·Alessio Trois·Sergey S. Tsygankov·Jacco Vink·Martin C. Weisskopf·Kinwah Wu
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Abstract

We report on IXPE, NICER and XMM-Newton observations of the magnetar 1E 2259+586. We find that the source is significantly polarized at about or above 20% for all phases except for the secondary peak where it is more weakly polarized. The polarization degree is strongest during the primary minimum which is also the phase where an absorption feature has been identified previously (Pizzocaro et al. 2019). The polarization angle of the photons are consistent with a rotating vector model with a mode switch between the primary minimum and the rest of the rotation of the neutron star. We propose a scenario in which the emission at the source is weakly polarized (as in a condensed surface) and, as the radiation passes through a plasma arch, resonant cyclotron scattering off of protons produces the observed polarized radiation. This confirms the magnetar nature of the source with a surface field greater than about 10 15 G

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Jeremy Heyl, Roberto Taverna, Roberto Turolla, Gian Luca Israel, Mason Ng, Demet Kirmizibayrak, Denis González-Caniulef, Ilaria Caiazzo, Silvia Zane, Steven R. Ehlert, Michela Negro, Iván Agudo, Lucio Angelo 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, Chien-Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Enrico Costa, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Laura Di Gesu, Niccolò Di Lalla, Alessandro Di Marco, Immacolata Donnarumma, Victor Doroshenko, Michal Dovčiak, Teruaki Enoto, Yuri Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Javier A. Garcia, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Wataru Iwakiri, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Philip Kaaret, Vladimir Karas, Fabian Kislat, 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, Herman L. Marshall, Francesco Massaro, 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 Lawrence Peirson, Matteo Perri, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, Maura Pilia, Andrea Possenti, Juri Poutanen, Simonetta Puccetti, Brian D. Ramsey, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, Oliver J. Roberts, Roger W. Romani, Carmelo Sgrò, Patrick Slane, Paolo Soffitta, Gloria Spandre, Douglas A. Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Yuzuru Tawara, Allyn F. Tennant, Nicholas E. Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, Alessio Trois, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Jacco Vink, Martin C. Weisskopf, Kinwah Wu. 2023-11-07. The detection of polarized x-ray emission from the magnetar 1E 2259+586. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03637

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