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

Author:

Heyl Jeremy1ORCID,Taverna Roberto2,Turolla Roberto23,Israel Gian Luca4,Ng Mason5ORCID,Kırmızıbayrak Demet1,González-Caniulef Denis6ORCID,Caiazzo Ilaria7ORCID,Zane Silvia3,Ehlert Steven R8ORCID,Negro Michela9,Agudo Iván10,Antonelli Lucio Angelo411,Bachetti Matteo12,Baldini Luca1314,Baumgartner Wayne H8,Bellazzini Ronaldo13,Bianchi Stefano15,Bongiorno Stephen D8,Bonino Raffaella1617,Brez Alessandro13,Bucciantini Niccolò181920,Capitanio Fiamma21,Castellano Simone13,Cavazzuti Elisabetta22,Chen Chien-Ting23,Ciprini Stefano1124,Costa Enrico21,De Rosa Alessandra21,Del Monte Ettore21,Di Gesu Laura22,Di Lalla Niccolò25,Di Marco Alessandro21,Donnarumma Immacolata22,Doroshenko Victor26,Dovčiak Michal27,Enoto Teruaki28,Evangelista Yuri21,Fabiani Sergio21,Ferrazzoli Riccardo21,Garcia Javier A29,Gunji Shuichi30,Hayashida Kiyoshi31,Iwakiri Wataru32,Jorstad Svetlana G3334,Kaaret Philip8,Karas Vladimir27,Kislat Fabian35,Kitaguchi Takao28,Kolodziejczak Jeffery J8,Krawczynski Henric36,Monaca Fabio La21,Latronico Luca16,Liodakis Ioannis8,Maldera Simone16,Manfreda Alberto37,Marin Frédéric38,Marinucci Andrea22,Marscher Alan P33,Marshall Herman L5,Massaro Francesco1617,Matt Giorgio15,Mitsuishi Ikuyuki39,Mizuno Tsunefumi40,Muleri Fabio21,Ng C-Y41,O’Dell Stephen L8,Omodei Nicola25,Oppedisano Chiara16,Papitto Alessandro4,Pavlov George G42,Peirson Abel Lawrence25,Perri Matteo411,Pesce-Rollins Melissa13,Petrucci Pierre-Olivier43,Pilia Maura12,Possenti Andrea12,Poutanen Juri44,Puccetti Simonetta11,Ramsey Brian D8,Rankin John21,Ratheesh Ajay21,Roberts Oliver J23,Romani Roger W25,Sgrò Carmelo13,Slane Patrick45,Soffitta Paolo21,Spandre Gloria13,Swartz Douglas A23,Tamagawa Toru28,Tavecchio Fabrizio46,Tawara Yuzuru39,Tennant Allyn F8,Thomas Nicholas E8,Tombesi Francesco244748,Trois Alessio12,Tsygankov Sergey S44,Vink Jacco49,Weisskopf Martin C8,Wu Kinwah3,Xie Fei2150

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 , Canada

2. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Padova , Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova , Italy

3. Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London , Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT , UK

4. INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monte Porzio Catone (RM) , Italy

5. MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 , USA

6. Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie , UPS-OMP, CNRS, CNES, 9 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-BP 44346 31028 Toulouse CEDEX 4 , France

7. Cahill Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125 , USA

8. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812 , USA

9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA 70803 , USA

10. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía , CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada , Spain

11. Space Science Data Center, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana , Via del Politecnico snc, I-00133 Roma , Italy

12. INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari , Via della Scienza 5, I-09047 Selargius (CA) , Italy

13. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa , Italy

14. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa , Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa , Italy

15. Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre , Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma , Italy

16. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino , Via Pietro Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino , Italy

17. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino , Via Pietro Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino , Italy

18. INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri , Largo Enrico Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze , Italy

19. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze , Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) , Italy

20. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze , Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) , Italy

21. INAF Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali , Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Roma , Italy

22. ASI – Agenzia Spaziale Italiana , Via del Politecnico snc, I-00133 Roma , Italy

23. Science and Technology Institute, Universities Space Research Association , Huntsville, AL 35805 , USA

24. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ , Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Roma , Italy

25. Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305 , USA

26. Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen , Sand 1, D-72076 Tübingen , Germany

27. Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Boční II 1401/1, CZ-14100 Praha 4 , Czech Republic

28. RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research , 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 , Japan

29. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, MD 20771 , USA

30. Faculty of Science, Yamagata University , 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata-shi 990-8560 , Japan

31. Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University , 1-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 , Japan

32. International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University , Chiba 263-8522 , Japan

33. Institute for Astrophysical Research , Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 , USA

34. Department of Astrophysics, St. Petersburg State University , Universitetsky pr. 28, Petrodvoretz, 198504 St. Petersburg , Russia

35. Department of Physics and Astronomy and Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire , Durham, NH 03824 , USA

36. Physics Department and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, MO 63130 , USA

37. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Strada Comunale Cinthia , I-80126 Napoli , Italy

38. Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg , UMR 7550, F-67000 Strasbourg , France

39. Graduate School of Science, Division of Particle and Astrophysical Science, Nagoya University , Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602 , Japan

40. Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University , 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526 , Japan

41. Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam , 999077 Hong Kong

42. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802 , USA

43. Université Grenoble Alpes , CNRS, IPAG, F-38000 Grenoble , France

44. Department of Physics and Astronomy , University of Turku, Turku FI-20014 , Finland

45. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian , 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 , USA

46. INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera , Via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate (LC) , Italy

47. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ , Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Roma , Italy

48. Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742 , USA

49. Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy and GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam , the Netherlands

50. Guangxi Key Laboratory for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University , Nanning 530004 , China

Abstract

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  per cent 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. 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 1015 G.

Funder

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Canadian Space Agency

CNES

INAF

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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