Polarization properties of the weakly magnetized neutron star X-ray  binary GS 1826-238 in the high soft state

Capitanio, Fiamma; Fabiani, Sergio; Gnarini, Andrea; Ursini, Francesco; Ferrigno, Carlo; Matt, Giorgio; Poutanen, Juri; Cocchi, Massimo; Mikusincova, Romana; Farinelli, Ruben; Bianchi, Stefano; Kajava, Jari J.E.; Muleri, Fabio; Sanchez-Fernandez, Celia; Soffitta, Paolo; Wu, Kinwah; Agudo, Ivan; Antonelli, L.A.; Bachetti, Matteo; Baldini, Luca; Baumgartner, Wayne H.; Bellazzini, Ronaldo; Bongiorno, Stephen D.; Bonino, Raffaella; Brez, Alessandro; Bucciantini, Niccolò; Castellano, Simone; Cavazzuti, Elisabetta; Ciprini, Stefano; Costa, Enrico; Rosa, Alessandra De; Monte, Ettore Del; Gesu, Laura Di; Lalla, Niccolo Di; Marco, Alessandro Di; Donnarumma, Immacolata; Doroshenko, Victor; Dovčiak, Michal; Ehlert, Steven R.; Enoto, Teruaki; Evangelista, Yuri; Ferrazzoli, Riccardo; Garcia, Javier A.; Gunji, Shuichi; Hayashida, Kiyoshi; Heyl, Jeremy; Iwakiri, Wataru; Jorstad, Svetlana G.; Karas, Vladimir; Kitaguchi, Takao; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J.; Krawczynski, Henric; Monaca, Fabio La; Latronico, Luca; Liodakis, Ioannis; Maldera, Simone; Manfreda, Alberto; Marin, Fréedèric; Marinucci, Andrea; Marscher, Alan P.; Marshall, Herman L.; Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki; Mizuno, Tsunefumi; Ng, C.-Y.; O'Dell, Stephen L.; Omodei, Nicola; Oppedisano, Chiara; Papitto, Alessandro; Pavlov, George G.; Peirson, Abel L.; Perri, Matteo; Pesce-Rollins, Melissa; Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier; Pilia, Maura; Possenti, Andrea; Puccetti, Simonetta; Ramsey, Brian D.; Rankin, John; Ratheesh, Ajay; Romani, Roger W.; Sgrò, Carmelo; Slane, Patrick; Spandre, Gloria; Tamagawa, Toru; Tavecchio, Fabrizio; Taverna, Roberto; Tawara, Yuzuru; Tennant, Allyn F.; Thomas, Nicholas E.; Tombesi, Francesco; Trois, Alessio; Tsygankov, Sergey S.; Turolla, Roberto; Vink, Jacco; Weisskopf, Martin C.; Xie, Fei; Zane, Silvia

Polarization properties of the weakly magnetized neutron star X-ray binary GS 1826-238 in the high soft state

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2023-02-01

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10.3847/1538-4357/acae88

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Capitanio, Fiamma

Fabiani, Sergio

Gnarini, Andrea

Ursini, Francesco

Ferrigno, Carlo

Matt, Giorgio

Poutanen, Juri

Cocchi, Massimo

Mikusincova, Romana

Farinelli, Ruben

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F. Capitanio, S. Fabiani, A. Gnarini, F. Ursini, C. Ferrigno, G. Matt, J. Poutanen, M. Cocchi, R. Mikusincova, R. Farinelli, S. Bianchi, J.J.E. Kajava, F. Muleri, C. Sanchez-Fernandez, P. Soffitta, K. Wu, I. Agudo, L.A. Antonelli, M. Bachetti, L. Baldini, W.H. Baumgartner, R. Bellazzini, S.D. Bongiorno, R. Bonino, A. Brez, N. Bucciantini, S. Castellano, E. Cavazzuti, S. Ciprini, E. Costa, A.D. Rosa, E.D. Monte, L.D. Gesu, N.D. Lalla, A.D. Marco, I. Donnarumma, V. Doroshenko, M. Dovciak, S.R. Ehlert, T. Enoto, Y. Evangelista, R. Ferrazzoli, J.A. Garcia, S. Gunji, K. Hayashida, J. Heyl, W. Iwakiri, S.G. Jorstad, V. Karas, T. Kitaguchi, J.J. Kolodziejczak, H. Krawczynski, F.L. Monaca, L. Latronico, I. Liodakis, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, F. Marin, A. Marinucci, A.P. Marscher, H.L. Marshall, I. Mitsuishi, T. Mizuno, C.-Y. Ng, S.L. O'Dell, N. Omodei, C. Oppedisano, A. Papitto, G.G. Pavlov, A.L. Peirson, M. Perri, M. Pesce-Rollins, P.-O. Petrucci, M. Pilia, A. Possenti, S. Puccetti, B.D. Ramsey, J. Rankin, A. Ratheesh, R.W. Romani, C. Sgrò, P. Slane, G. Spandre, T. Tamagawa, F. Tavecchio, R. Taverna, Y. Tawara, A.F. Tennant, N.E. Thomas, F. Tombesi, A. Trois, S.S. Tsygankov, R. Turolla, J. Vink, M.C. Weisskopf, F. Xie, S. Zane. 2023. "Polarization properties of the weakly magnetized neutron star X-ray binary GS 1826-238 in the high soft state" The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, Volume 943, Issue 2, pp.129-129. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acae88

Abstract

The launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on 2021 December 9 has opened a new window in X-ray astronomy. We report here the results of the first IXPE observation of a weakly magnetized neutron star, GS 1826-238, performed on 2022 March 29-31 when the source was in a high soft state. An upper limit (99.73% confidence level) of 1.3% for the linear polarization degree is obtained over the IXPE 2-8 keV energy range. Coordinated INTEGRAL and NICER observations were carried out simultaneously with IXPE. The spectral parameters obtained from the fits to the broad-band spectrum were used as inputs for Monte Carlo simulations considering different possible geometries of the X-ray emitting region. Comparing the IXPE upper limit with these simulations, we can put constraints on the geometry and inclination angle of GS 1826-238.

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