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Chair: T. Tamagawa (RIKEN)
The Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) has opened up a new window on the X-ray sky, with observations of nearly 100 sources. In this talk I summarize IXPE's technical advances, the challenges of polarization measurements, our successes to date and the prospects for future discovery. IXPE has obtained polarization images of a number of X-ray nebulae, including pulsar wind nebulae and...
MAXI provides us with a powerful tool for detecting soft X-ray transients, such as outbursts of LMXBs or HMXBs, long-duration X-ray bursts, and stellar flares. To investigate more detailed physical processes of these X-ray transients, it is important to obtain the precision timing and spectroscopy data by rapid follow-up observations with high-sensitivity X-ray detectors. The Neutron Star...
For the last half-century, relativistic outflows accompanying the final collapse of massive stars have predominantly been detected via high-energy emission, as long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Yet, it has long been hypothesized that GRBs are the tip of the iceberg of relativistic stellar explosions, because the conditions required to produce and detect a GRB are contrived. I will present...
