Revisiting the Polarization of the Emission of the Internal Shock in the Jet of Blazars

Recent Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations of blazars tend to support the shock model for the X-ray emission, but report a low degree of polarization (Π ∼ 10%) in X-rays compared with the previous theoretical expectations in the shock model. In order to reconcile the theoretical e...

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Main Authors: Hao-Qiang Zhang, Da-Bin Lin, Kuan Liu, En-Wei Liang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad26f6