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arxiv: 2301.01798 · v2 · pith:OEXDQ256new · submitted 2023-01-04 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

The IXPE view of GRB 221009A

Michela Negro , Niccol\'o Di Lalla , Nicola Omodei , P\'eter Veres , Stefano Silvestri , Alberto Manfreda , Eric Burns , Luca Baldini
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Enrico Costa Steven R. Ehlert Jamie A. Kennea Ioannis Liodakis Herman L. Marshall Sandro Mereghetti Riccardo Middei Fabio Muleri Stephen L. O'Dell Oliver J. Roberts Roger W. Romani Carmelo Sgr\'o Alessandro Di Marco Simonetta Puccetti Masanobu Terashima Andrea Tiengo Domenico Viscolo Fabio La Monaca Luca Latronico Giorgio Matt Matteo Perri Juri Poutanen Ajay Ratheesh Daniele Rogantini Patrick Slane Paolo Soffitta Elina Lindfors Kari Nilsson Anni Kasikov Alan P. Marscher Fabrizio Tavecchio Shuichi Gunji Christian Malacaria Alessandro Paggi Yi-Jung Yang Silvia Zane Martin C. Weisskopf Iv\'an Agudo Lucio A. Antonelli Wayne H. Baumgartner Ronaldo Bellazzini Stefano Bianchi Raffaella Bonino Alessandro Brez Niccol Bucciantini Simone Castellano Elisabetta Cavazzuti Chien-Ting Chen Alessandra De Rosa Ettore Del Monte Laura Di Gesu Immacolata Donnarumma Victor Doroshenko Michal Dovciak Teruaki Enoto Matteo Bachetti Stephen D. Bongiorno Fiamma Capitanio Stefano Ciprini Yuri Evangelista Sergio Fabiani Riccardo Ferrazzoli Javier A. Garcia Kiyoshi Hayashida Jeremy Heyl Wataru Iwakiri Svetlana G. Jorstad Philip Kaaret Vladimir Karas Fabian Kislat Takao Kitaguchi Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak Henric Krawczynski Simone Maldera Fr\'ed\'eric Marin Andrea Marinucci Ikuyuki Mitsuishi Tsunefumi Mizuno C. -Y. Ng Chiara Oppedisano Alessandro Papitto George G. Pavlov Abel L. Peirson Melissa Pesce-Rollins Pierre-Olivier Petrucci Brian D. Ramsey John Rankin Gloria Spandre Maura Pilia Andrea Possenti Douglas A. Swartz Toru Tamagawa Roberto Taverna Yuzuru Tawara Allyn F. Tennant Nicholas E. Thomas Francesco Tombesi Alessio Trois Sergey S. Tsygankov Roberto Turolla Jacco Vink Kinwah Wu Fei Xie
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We present the IXPE observation of GRB 221009A which includes upper limits on the linear polarization degree of both prompt and afterglow emission in the soft X-ray energy band. GRB 221009A is an exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) that reached Earth on 2022 October 9 after travelling through the dust of the Milky Way. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) pointed at GRB 221009A on October 11 to observe, for the first time, the 2-8 keV X-ray polarization of a GRB afterglow. We set an upper limit to the polarization degree of the afterglow emission of 13.8% at a 99% confidence level. This result provides constraints on the jet opening angle and the viewing angle of the GRB, or alternatively, other properties of the emission region. Additionally, IXPE captured halo-rings of dust-scattered photons which are echoes of the GRB prompt emission. The 99% confidence level upper limit to the prompt polarization degree depends on the background model assumption and it ranges between ~55% to ~82%. This single IXPE pointing provides both the first assessment of X-ray polarization of a GRB afterglow and the first GRB study with polarization observations of both the prompt and afterglow phases.

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