Neutron star mergers and how to study them

E Burns - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2020 - Springer
Neutron star mergers are the canonical multimessenger events: they have been observed
through photons for half a century, gravitational waves since 2017, and are likely to be …

GRB polarization: a unique probe of GRB physics

R Gill, M Kole, J Granot - Galaxies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over half a century from the discovery of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the dominant radiation
mechanism responsible for their bright and highly variable prompt emission remains poorly …

The IXPE view of GRB 221009A

M Negro, N Di Lalla, N Omodei, P Veres… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

The POLAR gamma-ray burst polarization catalog

M Kole, N De Angelis, F Berlato, JM Burgess… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Despite over 50 years of research, many open questions remain about the origin
and nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Linear polarization measurements of the prompt …

Hard x-ray polarization catalog for a five-year sample of gamma-ray bursts using AstroSat CZT imager

T Chattopadhyay, S Gupta, S Iyyani… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) on board AstroSat has been regularly
detecting gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) since its launch in 2015. Its sensitivity to polarization …

Phase-resolved X-ray polarimetry of the Crab pulsar with the AstroSat CZT Imager

SV Vadawale, T Chattopadhyay, NPS Mithun… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The Crab pulsar is a typical example of a young, rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized
neutron star that generates broadband electromagnetic radiation by accelerating charged …

A Detailed Time-resolved and Energy-resolved Spectro-polarimetric Study of Bright Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by AstroSat CZTI in Its First Year of Operation

R Gupta, SB Pandey, S Gupta… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The radiation mechanism underlying the prompt emission remains unresolved and can be
resolved using a systematic and uniform time-resolved spectro-polarimetric study. In this …

Hard X-ray polarimetry—an overview of the method, science drivers, and recent findings

T Chattopadhyay - Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 2021 - Springer
The last decade has seen a leapfrog in the interest of X-ray polarimetry with a number of
new polarization measurements in hard X-rays from AstroSat, POLAR, GAP, and PoGO+ …

POLAR-2: a large scale gamma-ray polarimeter for GRBs

J Hulsman - … and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The prompt emission of GRBs has been investigated for more than 50 years but remains
poorly understood. Commonly, spectral and temporal profiles of γ-ray emission are …

Astrophysical and cosmological searches for Lorentz invariance violation

S Desai - Recent Progress on Gravity Tests: Challenges and …, 2024 - Springer
Lorentz invariance is one of the fundamental tenets of Special Relativity, and has been
extensively tested with laboratory and astrophysical observations. However, many quantum …