A polarimetrically oriented X-ray stare at the accreting pulsar EXO 2030+375
Journal
Date Issued
2023
Author(s)
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Heyl, Jeremy
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Doroshenko, Victor
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Tsygankov, Sergey S.
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Poutanen, Juri
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Forsblom, Sofia V.
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Du, Yujia
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Ducci, Lorenzo
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Lutovinov, Alexander A.
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Marshall, Herman L.
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Mereminskiy, Ilya A.
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Molkov, Sergey V.
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Mushtukov, Alexander A.
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Ng, Mason
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Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier
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Santangelo, Andrea
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Shtykovsky, Andrey E.
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Suleimanov, Valery F.
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Agudo, Iván
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Baldini, Luca
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Baumgartner, Wayne H.
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Bellazzini, Ronaldo
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Bianchi, Stefano
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Bongiorno, Stephen D.
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Bonino, Raffaella
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Brez, Alessandro
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Castellano, Simone
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Cavazzuti, Elisabetta
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Chen, Chien-Ting
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Ciprini, Stefano
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Di Gesu, Laura
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Di Lalla, Niccolò
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Donnarumma, Immacolata
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Dovčiak, Michal
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Ehlert, Steven R.
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Enoto, Teruaki
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Garcia, Javier A.
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Gunji, Shuichi
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Hayashida, Kiyoshi
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Iwakiri, Wataru
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Jorstad, Svetlana G.
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Kaaret, Philip
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Karas, Vladimir
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Kislat, Fabian
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Kitaguchi, Takao
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Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J.
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Krawczynski, Henric
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Latronico, Luca
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Liodakis, Ioannis
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Maldera, Simone
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Manfreda, Alberto
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Marin, Frédéric
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Marinucci, Andrea
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Marscher, Alan P.
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Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki
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Mizuno, Tsunefumi
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Negro, Michela
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Ng, Chi-Yung
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O'Dell, Stephen L.
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Omodei, Nicola
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Oppedisano, Chiara
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Pavlov, George G.
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Peirson, Abel L.
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Pesce-Rollins, Melissa
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Puccetti, Simonetta
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Ramsey, Brian D.
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Roberts, Oliver J.
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Romani, Roger W.
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Sgrò, Carmelo
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Slane, Patrick
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Spandre, Gloria
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Swartz, Douglas A.
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Tamagawa, Toru
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Taverna, Roberto
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Tawara, Yuzuru
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Tennant, Allyn F.
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Thomas, Nicholas E.
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Turolla, Roberto
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Vink, Jacco
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Weisskopf, Martin C.
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Wu, Kinwah
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Zane, Silvia
Abstract
Accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) are presumed to be ideal targets for polarization measurements, as their high magnetic field strength is expected to polarize the emission up to a polarization degree of ∼80%. However, such expectations are being challenged by recent observations of XRPs with the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE). Here, we report on the results of yet another XRP, namely, EXO 2030+375, observed with IXPE and contemporarily monitored with Insight-HXMT and SRG/ART-XC. In line with recent results obtained with IXPE for similar sources, an analysis of the EXO 2030+375 data returns a low polarization degree of 0%-3% in the phase-averaged study and a variation in the range of 2%-7% in the phase-resolved study. Using the rotating vector model, we constrained the geometry of the system and obtained a value of ∼60° for the magnetic obliquity. When considering the estimated pulsar inclination of ∼130°, this also indicates that the magnetic axis swings close to the observer's line of sight. Our joint polarimetric, spectral, and timing analyses hint toward a complex accreting geometry, whereby magnetic multipoles with an asymmetric topology and gravitational light bending significantly affect the behavior of the observed source.
Volume
675
Start page
A29
Issn Identifier
0004-6361
Ads BibCode
2023A&A...675A..29M
Rights
open.access
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