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Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector

AHARONIAN, F.; H. AKAMATSU; F. AKIMOTO; S. W. ALLEN; L. ANGELINI et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector

Autoři

AHARONIAN, F.; H. AKAMATSU; F. AKIMOTO; S. W. ALLEN; L. ANGELINI; M. AUDARD; H. AWAKI; M. AXELSSON; A. BAMBA; M. W. BAUTZ; R. BLANDFORD; L. W. BRENNEMAN; G. V. BROWN; E. BULBUL; EM. CACKETT; M. CHERNYAKOVA; MP. CHIAO; PS. COPPI; E. COSTANTINI; J. DE PLAA; C. P. DE VRIES; J. W. DEN HERDER; C. DONE; T. DOTANI; K. EBISAWA; M.E. ECKART; T. ENOTO; Y. EZOE; A. C. FABIAN; C. FERRIGNO; A. R. FOSTER; R. FUJIMOTO; Y. FUKAZAWA; A. FURUZAWA; M. GALEAZZI; L. C. GALLO; P. GANDHI; M. GIUSTINI; A. GOLDWURM; Gu LY; M. GUAINAZZI; Y. HABA; K. HAGINO; K. HAMAGUCHI; I. M. HARRUS; I. HATSUKADE; K. HAYASHI; T. HAYASHI; K. HAYASHIDA; J. S. HIRAGA; A. HORNSCHEMEIER; A. HOSHINO; J. P. HUGHES; Y. ICHINOHE; R. IIZUKA; H. INOUE; Y. INOUE; M. ISHIDA; K. ISHIKAWA; Y. ISHISAKI; M. IWAI; J. KAASTRA; T. KALLMAN; T. KAMAE; J. KATAOKA; S. KATSUDA; N. KAWAI; R. L. KELLEY; C. A. KILBOURNE; T. KITAGUCHI; S. KITAMOTO; T. KITAYAMA; T. KOHMURA; M. KOKUBUN; K. KOYAMA; S. KOYAMA; P. KRETSCHMAR; H. A. KRIMM; A. KUBOTA; H. KUNIEDA; P. LAURENT; S. H. LEE; M. A. LEUTENEGGER; O. LIMOUSIN; M. LOEWENSTEIN; K. S. LONG; D. LUMB; G. MADEJSKI; Y. MAEDA; D. MAIER; K. MAKISHIMA; M. MARKEVITCH; H. MATSUMOTO; K. MATSUSHITA; D. MCCAMMON; B. R. MCNAMARA; M. MEHDIPOUR; E. D. MILLER; J. M. MILLER; S. MINESHIGE; K. MITSUDA; I. MITSUISHI; T. MIYAZAWA; T. MIZUNO; H. MORI; K. MORI; K. MUKAI; H. MURAKAMI; R. F. MUSHOTZKY; T. NAKAGAWA; H. NAKAJIMA; T. NAKAMORI; S. NAKASHIMA; K. NAKAZAWA; K. K. NOBUKAWA; M. NOBUKAWA; H. NODA; H. ODAKA; T. OHASHI; M. OHNO; T. OKAJIMA; N. OTA; M. OZAKI; F. PAERELS; S. PALTANI; R. PETRE; C. PINTO; F. S. PORTER; K. POTTSCHMIDT; C. S. REYNOLDS; S. SAFI-HARB; S. SAITO; K. SAKAI; T. SASAKI; G. SATO; K. SATO; R. SATO; M. SAWADA; N. SCHARTEL; P. J. SERLEMTSOS; H. SETA; M. SHIDATSU; A. SIMIONESCU; R. K. SMITH; Y. SOONG; L. STAWARZ; Y. SUGAWARA; S. SUGITA; A. SZYMKOWIAK; H. TAJIMA; H. TAKAHASHI; T. TAKAHASHI; S. TAKEDA; Y. TAKEI; T. TAMAGAWA; T. TAMURA; T. TANAKA; Y. TANAKA; Y. T. TANAKA; M. S. TASHIRO; Y. TAWARA; Y. TERADA; Y. TERASHIMA; F. TOMBESI; H. TOMIDA; Y. TSUBOI; M. TSUJIMOTO; H. TSUNEMI; T. G. TSURU; H. UCHIDA; H. UCHIYAMA; Y. UCHIYAMA; S. UEDA; Y. UEDA; S. UNO; C. M. URRY; E. URSINO; S. WATANABE; Norbert WERNER; D. R. WILKINS; B. J. WILLIAMS; S. YAMADA; H. YAMAGUCHI; K. YAMAOKA; NY YAMASAKI; M. YAMAUCHI; S. YAMAUCHI; T. YAQOOB; Y. YATSU; D. YONETOKU; I. ZHURAVLEVA; A. ZOGHBI a Y. UCHIDA

Vydání

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, OXFORD, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2018, 0004-6264

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10308 Astronomy

Stát vydavatele

Japonsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.750

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00106529

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

EID Scopus

Klíčová slova anglicky

instrumentation: polarimeters; polarization; X-rays: individual (Crab)
Změněno: 10. 11. 2022 12:31, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

We present the results from the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) observation of the Crab nebula. The main part of SGD is a Compton camera, which in addition to being a spectrometer, is capable of measuring polarization of gamma-ray photons. The Crab nebula is one of the brightest X-ray / gamma-ray sources on the sky, and, the only source from which polarized X-ray photons have been detected. SGD observed the Crab nebula during the initial test observation phase of Hitomi. We performed the data analysis of the SGD observation, the SGD background estimation and the SGD Monte Carlo simulations, and, successfully detected polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with only about 5 ks exposure time. The obtained polarization fraction of the phase-integrated Crab emission (sum of pulsar and nebula emissions) is (22.1% +/- 10.6%), and, the polarization angle is 110.degrees 7 + 13.degrees 2 /-13.degrees 0 in the energy range of 60-160 keV (The errors correspond to the 1 sigma deviation). The confidence level of the polarization detection was 99.3%. The polarization angle measured by SGD is about one sigma deviation with the projected spin axis of the pulsar, 124.degrees 0 +/- 0.degrees 1.