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

DOI: 
10.3847/1538-4357/ad5671
Publication date: 
12/09/2024
Main author: 
Marshall, Herman L.
IAA authors: 
Agudo, Iván;Bonnoli, Giacomo;Aceituno, Francisco José;Bernardos, Maria I.;Casanova, Víctor;García-Comas, Maya;Agís-González, Beatriz;Husillos, César;Sota, Alfredo;Escudero, Juan;Trainou, Efthalia
Authors: 
Marshall, 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
Journal: 
The Astrophysical Journal
Publication type: 
Article
Volume: 
972
Pages: 
74
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.
Database: 
ADS
SCOPUS
URL: 
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024ApJ...972...74M/abstract
ADS Bibcode: 
2024ApJ...972...74M
Keywords: 
X-ray astronomy;Polarimetry;Spectropolarimetry;Radio loud quasars;X-ray quasars;Blazars;Flat-spectrum radio quasars;1810;1278;1973;1349;1821;164;2163;Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena