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Predicting the X-ray polarization of type 2 Seyfert galaxies by Marin, F., Dovčiak, M., Muleri, F., Kislat, F. F., Krawczynski, H. S.

“…Infrared, optical and ultraviolet spectropolarimetric observations have proven to be ideal tools for the study of the hidden nuclei of type 2 active galactic…”
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The Effect of Microlensing on the Observed X-Ray Energy Spectra of Gravitationally Lensed Quasars by Krawczynski, H., Chartas, G., Kislat, F.

“…The Chandra observations of several gravitationally lensed quasars show evidence for flux and spectral variability of the X-ray emission that is uncorrelated…”
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The design and performance of the XL-Calibur anticoincidence shield by Iyer, N.K., Kiss, M., Pearce, M., Stana, T.-A., Awaki, H., Bose, R.G., Dasgupta, A., De Geronimo, G., Gau, E., Hakamata, T., Ishida, M., Ishiwata, K., Kamogawa, W., Kislat, F., Kitaguchi, T., Krawczynski, H., Lisalda, L., Maeda, Y., Matsumoto, H., Miyamoto, A., Miyazawa, T., Mizuno, T., Rauch, B.F., Cavero, N. Rodriguez, Sakamoto, N., Sato, J., Spooner, S., Takahashi, H., Takeo, M., Tamagawa, T., Uchida, Y., West, A.T., Wimalasena, K., Yoshimoto, M.

“…The XL-Calibur balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission comprises a Compton-scattering polarimeter placed at the focal point of an X-ray mirror. The…”
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Observations of a GX 301-2 Apastron Flare with the X-Calibur Hard X-Ray Polarimeter Supported by NICER, the Swift XRT and BAT, and Fermi GBM by Abarr, Q., Baring, M., Beheshtipour, B., Beilicke, M., Geronimo, G. de, Dowkontt, P., Errando, M., Guarino, V., Iyer, N., Kislat, F., Kiss, M., Kitaguchi, T., Krawczynski, H., Lanzi, J., Li, S., Lisalda, L., Okajima, T., Pearce, M., Press, L., Rauch, B., Stuchlik, D., Takahashi, H., Tang, J., Uchida, N., West, A., Jenke, P., Krimm, H., Lien, A., Malacaria, C., Miller, J. M., Wilson-Hodge, C.

“…The accretion-powered X-ray pulsar GX 301−2 was observed with the balloon-borne X-Calibur hard X-ray polarimeter during late 2018 December, with contiguous…”
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X-Ray Polarimetry of X-Ray Pulsar X Persei: Another Orthogonal Rotator? by Mushtukov, A A, Tsygankov, S S, Poutanen, J, Doroshenko, V, Salganik, A, Costa, E, Marco, A Di, Heyl, J, Monaca, F La, Lutovinov, A A, Mereminskiy, I A, Papitto, A, Semena, A N, Shtykovsky, A E, Suleimanov, V F, Forsblom, S V, González-Caniulef, D, Malacaria, C, Sunyaev, R A, Agudo, I, Antonelli, L A, Bachetti, M, Baldini, L, Baumgartner, W H, Bellazzini, R, Bianchi, S, Bongiorno, S D, Bonino, R, Brez, A, Bucciantini, N, Capitanio, F, Castellano, S, Cavazzuti, E, Chen, C-T, Ciprini, S, Ehlert, S R, Kaaret, P, Kolodziejczak, J J, O’Dell, S L, Ramsey, B D, Tennant, A F, Thomas, N E, Weisskopf, M C

“…X Persei is a persistent low-luminosity X-ray pulsar of period of ≈ 835 s in a Be binary system. The field strength at the neutron star surface is not known…”
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XL-Calibur – a second-generation balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission by Abarr, Q., Awaki, H., Baring, M.G., Bose, R., De Geronimo, G., Dowkontt, P., Errando, M., Guarino, V., Hattori, K., Hayashida, K., Imazato, F., Ishida, M., Iyer, N.K., Kislat, F., Kiss, M., Kitaguchi, T., Krawczynski, H., Lisalda, L., Matake, H., Maeda, Y., Matsumoto, H., Mineta, T., Miyazawa, T., Mizuno, T., Okajima, T., Pearce, M., Rauch, B.F., Ryde, F., Shreves, C., Spooner, S., Stana, T.-A., Takahashi, H., Takeo, M., Tamagawa, T., Tamura, K., Tsunemi, H., Uchida, N., Uchida, Y., West, A.T., Wulf, E.A., Yamamoto, R.

“…XL-Calibur is a hard X-ray (15-80 keV) polarimetry mission operating from a stabilised balloon-borne platform in the stratosphere. It builds on heritage from…”
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Performance of the X-Calibur hard X-ray polarimetry mission during its 2018/19 long-duration balloon flight by Abarr, Q., Beheshtipour, B., Beilicke, M., Bose, R., Braun, D., de Geronimo, G., Dowkontt, P., Errando, M., Gadson, T., Guarino, V., Heatwole, S., Hossen, M., Iyer, N., Kislat, F., Kiss, M., Kitaguchi, T., Krawczynski, H., Lanzi, J., Li, S., Lisalda, L., Okajima, T., Pearce, M., Peterson, Z., Press, L., Rauch, B., Simburger, G., Stuchlik, D., Takahashi, H., Tang, J., Uchida, N., West, A.

“…X-Calibur is a balloon-borne telescope that measures the polarization of high-energy X-rays in the 15-50 keV energy range. The instrument makes use of the fact…”
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An unfolding method for X-ray spectro-polarimetry by Kislat, F., Beilicke, M., Guo, Q., Zajczyk, A., Krawczynski, H.

“…X-ray polarimetry has great scientific potential and new experiments, such as X-Calibur, PoGOLite, XIPE, and GEMS, will not only be orders of magnitude more…”
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Analyzing the data from X-ray polarimeters with Stokes parameters by Kislat, F., Clark, B., Beilicke, M., Krawczynski, H.

“…X-ray polarimetry promises to deliver unique information about the geometry of the inner accretion flow of astrophysical black holes and the nature of matter…”
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First flight of the X-ray polarimeter X-Calibur by Beilicke, Matthias, Kislat, F., Zajczyk, A., Guo, Q., Endsley, R., Cowsik, R., Dowkontt, P., Krawczynski, H., Barthelmy, S., Hams, T., Okajima, T., Sasaki, M., De Geronimo, G., Haba, Y., Saji, S.

“…X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information about high-energy astrophysical sources, such as binary black hole systems, micro-quasars,…”
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Cadmium Zinc Telluride detectors for a next-generation hard X-ray telescope by Tang, J., Kislat, F., Krawczynski, H.

“…We are currently developing Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors for a next-generation space-borne hard X-ray telescope which can follow up on the highly…”
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Design and Tests of the Hard X-ray Polarimeter X-Calibur by Beilicke, M., Cowsik, R., Dowkontt, P., Guo, Q., Kislat, F., Barthelmy, S., Okajima, T., Mitchell, J. W., Schnittman, J., Zeiger, B., De Geronimo, G., Baring, M. G., Bodaghee, A., Miyazawa, T., Finkelstein, K. D., Krawczynski, H.

“…X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information bout high-energy astrophysical sources, such as binary black hole  systems, micro-quasars,…”
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Uncovering the Geometry of the Hot X-Ray Corona in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 with IXPE by Gianolli, V E, Kim, D E, Bianchi, S, Agís-González, B, Madejski, G, Marin, F, Marinucci, A, Matt, G, Middei, R, Petrucci, P-O, Soffitta, P, Tagliacozzo, D, Tombesi, F, Ursini, F, Barnouin, T, Rosa, A De, Gesu, L Di, Ingram, A, Loktev, V, Panagiotou, C, Podgorny, J, Poutanen, J, Puccetti, S, Ratheesh, A, Veledina, A, Zhang, W, Agudo, I, Antonelli, L A, Bachetti, M, Baldini, L, Baumgartner, W H, Bellazzini, R, Bongiorno, S, Bonino, R, Brez, A, Ehlert, S R, Kaaret, P, Kolodziejczak, J J, O’Dell, S L, Ramsey, B D, Tennant, A F, Thomas, N E, Weisskopf, M C

“…We present an X-ray spectropolarimetric analysis of the bright Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151. The source has been observed with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry…”
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Accretion geometry of the neutron star low mass X-ray binary Cyg X-2 from X-ray polarization measurements by Farinelli, R, Fabiani, S, Poutanen, J, Ursini, F, Ferrigno, C, Bianchi, S, Cocchi, M, Capitanio, F, De Rosa, A, Gnarini, A, Kislat, F, Matt, G, Mikusincova, R, Muleri, F, Agudo, I, Antonelli, L A, Bachetti, M, Baldini, L, Baumgartner, W H, Bellazzini, R, Bongiorno, S D, Bonino, R, Brez, A, Bucciantini, N, Castellano, S, Cavazzuti, E, Ciprini, S, Costa, E, Del Monte, E, Di Gesu, L, Di Lalla, N, Di Marco, A, Donnarumma, I, Doroshenko, V, Dovčiak, M, Ehlert, S R, Enoto, T, Evangelista, Y, Ferrazzoli, R, Garcia, J A, Gunji, S, Hayashida, K, Heyl, J, Iwakiri, W, Jorstad, S G, Karas, V, Kitaguchi, T, Kolodziejczak, J J, Krawczynski, H, La Monaca, F, Latronico, L, Liodakis, I, Maldera, S, Manfreda, A, Marin, F, Marscher, A P, Marshall, H L, Mitsuishi, I, Mizuno, T, Ng, C-Y, O’Dell, S L, Omodei, N, Oppedisano, C, Papitto, A, Pavlov, G G, Peirson, A L, Perri, M, Pesce-Rollins, M, Petrucci, P O, Pilia, M, Possenti, A, Puccetti, S, Ramsey, B D, Rankin, J, Ratheesh, A, Romani, R W, Sgrò, C, Slane, P, Soffitta, P, Spandre, G, Tamagawa, T, Tavecchio, F, Taverna, R, Tawara, Y, Tennant, A F, Thomas, N E, Tombesi, F, Trois, A, Tsygankov, S S, Turolla, R, Vink, J, Weisskopf, M C, Wu, K, Xie, F, Zane, S

“…ABSTRACT We report spectro-polarimetric results of an observational campaign of the bright neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Cyg X-2 simultaneously observed…”
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Predicting the X-ray polarization of type-2 Seyfert galaxies by Marin, F, Dovciak, M, Muleri, F, Kislat, F. F, Krawczynski, H. S

“…Infrared, optical and ultraviolet spectropolarimetric observations have proven to be ideal tools for the study of the hidden nuclei of type-2 active galactic…”
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The X-ray polarization of the Seyfert 1 galaxy IC 4329A by Ingram, A, Ewing, M, Marinucci, A, Tagliacozzo, D, Rosario, D J, Veledina, A, Kim, D E, Marin, F, Bianchi, S, Poutanen, J, Matt, G, Marshall, H L, Ursini, F, De Rosa, A, Petrucci, P-O, Madejski, G, Barnouin, T, Gesu, L Di, Dovčiak, M, Gianolli, V E, Krawczynski, H, Loktev, V, Middei, R, Podgorny, J, Puccetti, S, Ratheesh, A, Tombesi, F, Ehlert, S R, Massaro, F, Agudo, I, Bachetti, M, Baldini, L, Baumgartner, W H, Bellazzini, R, Bongiorno, S D, Bonino, R, Brez, A, Bucciantini, N, Capitanio, F, Castellano, S, Cavazzuti, E, Chen, C-T, Ciprini, S, Costa, E, Del Monte, E, Donnarumma, I, Doroshenko, V, Enoto, T, Evangelista, Y, Fabiani, S, Ferrazzoli, R, García, J A, Gunji, S, Heyl, J, Iwakiri, W, Jorstad, S G, Kaaret, P, Kislat, F, Kitaguchi, T, Kolodziejczak, J J, Monaca, F La, Latronico, L, Liodakis, I, Maldera, S, Manfreda, A, Marscher, A P, Mizuno, T, Muleri, F, Negro, M, Ng, C-Y, O’Dell, S L, Omodei, N, Oppedisano, C, Papitto, A, Pavlov, G G, Peirson, A L, Perri, M, Pesce-Rollins, M, Pilia, M, Possenti, A, Ramsey, B D, Rankin, J, Roberts, O J, Romani, R W, Sgrò, C, Slane, P, Spandre, G, Swartz, D A, Tamagawa, T, Tavecchio, F, Taverna, R, Tawara, Y, Tennant, A F, Thomas, N E, Trois, A, Turolla, R, Vink, J, Weisskopf, M C, Wu, K, Xie, F

“…ABSTRACT We present an X-ray spectro-polarimetric analysis of the bright Seyfert galaxy IC 4329A. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observed the…”
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The geometry of the hot corona in MCG-05-23-16 constrained by X-ray polarimetry by Tagliacozzo, D, Marinucci, A, Ursini, F, Matt, G, Bianchi, S, Baldini, L, Barnouin, T, Cavero Rodriguez, N, De Rosa, A, Di Gesu, L, Dovčiak, M, Harper, D, Ingram, A, Krawczynski, H, Madejski, G, Marin, F, Middei, R, Marshall, H L, Muleri, F, Panagiotou, C, Petrucci, P-O, Podgorny, J, Poutanen, J, Puccetti, S, Tombesi, F, Veledina, A, Zhang, W, Agudo, I, Antonelli, L A, Bachetti, M, Baumgartner, W H, Bellazzini, R, Bongiorno, S D, Bonino, R, Brez, A, Bucciantini, N, Castellano, S, Chen, C-T, Ciprini, S, Costa, E, Del Monte, E, Di Marco, A, Donnarumma, I, Doroshenko, V, Ehlert, S R, Enoto, T, Evangelista, Y, Fabiani, S, Ferrazzoli, R, Garcia, J A, Gunji, S, Heyl, J, Iwakiri, W, Jorstad, S G, Kaaret, P, Kislat, F, Kitaguchi, T, Kolodziejczak, J J, La Monaca, F, Latronico, L, Liodakis, I, Maldera, S, Manfreda, A, Marscher, A P, Massaro, F, Mizuno, T, Negro, M, Ng, C-Y, O’Dell, S L, Omodei, N, Oppedisano, C, Papitto, A, Pavlov, G G, Peirson, A L, Perri, M, Pesce-Rollins, M, Pilia, M, Possenti, A, Ramsey, B D, Rankin, J, Ratheesh, A, Roberts, O J, Romani, R W, Sgrò, C, Slane, P, Spandre, G, Swartz, D A, Tamagawa, T, Tavecchio, F, Taverna, R, Tawara, Y, Tennant, A F, Thomas, N E, Trois, A, Turolla, R, Vink, J, Weisskopf, M C, Wu, K, Xie, F, Zane, S

“…ABSTRACT We report on the second observation of the radio-quiet active galactic nucleus MCG-05-23-16 performed with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer…”
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The First X-Ray Polarimetric Observation of the Black Hole Binary LMC X-1 by Podgorny, J, Marra, L, Muleri, F, RodriguezCavero, N, Ratheesh, A, Dovciak, M, Mikusincova, R, Brigitte, M, Steiner, J F, Veledina, A, Bianchi, S, Krawczynski, H, Svoboda, J, Kaaret, P, Matt, G, Garcia, J A, Petrucci, P-O, Lutovinov, A, Semena, A, Marco, A Di, Negro, M, Weisskopf, M C, Ingram, A, Poutanen, J, Beheshtipour, B, Chun, S, Hu, K, Baumgartner, W H, Bongiorno, S D, Ehlert, S R, Kolodziejczak, J J, O'Dell, S L, Ramsey, B D, Tennant, A F, Thomas, N E

“…We report on an X-ray polarimetric observation of the high-mass X-ray binary LMC X-1 in the high/soft state, obtained by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer…”
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IceTop: The surface component of IceCube by Abbasi, R., Aguilar, J.A., Ahlers, M., Andeen, K., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Bechet, S., Becker Tjus, J., Bertrand, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Bohm, C., Botner, O., Buitink, S., Chirkin, D., Cohen, S., Desiati, P., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J.C., Eisch, J., Elliott, C., Feintzeig, J., Feusels, T., Gaisser, T.K., Gallagher, J., Grant, D., Groß, A., Grullon, S., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Heimann, P., Heinen, D., Hill, G.C., Hoffmann, R., Hulth, P.O., Jacobsen, J., Japaridze, G.S., Jlelati, O., Johansson, H., Kappes, A., Klein, S.R., Klepser, S., Köhne, J.-H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D.J., Kroll, G., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Lauer, R., Madsen, J., Maruyama, R., McDermott, A., Miller, J., Movit, S.M., Nowicki, S.C., Obertacke, A., Olivas, A., Pepper, J.A., Pieloth, D., Pirk, N., Rädel, L., Rawlins, K., Resconi, E., Roth, J., Rott, C., Roucelle, C., Ruhe, T., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Scheriau, F., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Smith, M.W.E., Soldin, D., Spiczak, G.M., Spiering, C., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stößl, A., Stoyanov, S., Sullivan, G.W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Toale, P.A., Usner, M., van Eijndhoven, N., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Wiebe, K., Zoll, M.

“…IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an air shower array with an area of 1km2. The detector allows a…”
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Measurement of South Pole ice transparency with the IceCube LED calibration system by Ackermann, M., Aguilar, J.A., Ahlers, M., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Becker, K.-H., Benabderrahmane, M.L., Berdermann, J., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Bertrand, D., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blumenthal, J., Bohm, C., Böser, S., Carson, M., Chirkin, D., Christy, B., Clevermann, F., Cohen, S., Davis, J.C., de With, M., Eisch, J., Evenson, P.A., Fadiran, O., Feintzeig, J., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Fischer-Wasels, T., Frantzen, K., Gerhardt, L., Gladstone, L., Grant, D., Groß, A., Gurtner, M., Ha, C., Heereman, D., Heimann, P., Hickford, S., Hoffman, K.D., Hoshina, K., Jacobi, E., Jlelati, O., Kappes, A., Kiryluk, J., Kislat, F., Köhne, J.-H., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D.J., Kroll, G., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leute, J., Lünemann, J., Mase, K., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Mészáros, P., Milke, N., Miller, J., Morse, R., Niederhausen, H., O'Murchadha, A., Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Przybylski, G.T., Rädel, L., Redl, P., Rott, C., Schatto, K., Schmitz, M., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulz, O., Sestayo, Y., Sheremata, C., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stasik, A., Ström, R., Taavola, H., Ter-Antonyan, S., Usner, M., van der Drift, D., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Wallraff, M., Wasserman, R., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebusch, C.H., Yoshida, S.

“…The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, approximately 1km3 in size, is now complete with 86 strings deployed in the Antarctic ice. IceCube detects the Cherenkov…”
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