Young supernova remnants strongly modify the surrounding magnetic fields, which in turn play an essential role in accelerating cosmic rays (CRs). The X-ray polarization measurements probe magnetic field morphology and turbulence at the immediate acceleration site. We report the X-ray polarization distribution in the northeastern shell of SN 1006 from a 1 Ms observation with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. We found an average polarization degree of 22.4% ± 3.5% and an average polarization angle of −45.°4 ± 4.°5 (measured on the plane of the sky from north to east). The X-ray polarization angle distribution reveals that the magnetic fields immediately behind the shock in the northeastern shell of SN 1006 are nearly parallel to the shock normal or radially distributed, similar to that in the radio observations, and consistent with the quasi-parallel CR acceleration scenario. The X-ray emission is marginally more polarized than that in the radio band. The X-ray polarization degree of SN 1006 is much larger than that in Cas A and Tycho, together with the relatively tenuous and smooth ambient medium of the remnant, favoring that CR-induced instabilities set the magnetic turbulence in SN 1006, and CR acceleration is environment-dependent.
Magnetic Structures and Turbulence in SN 1006 Revealed with Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry
- Creators
- Zhou, Ping
- Prokhorov, Dmitry
- Ferrazzoli, Riccardo
- Yang, Yi-Jung
- Slane, Patrick
- Vink, Jacco
- Silvestri, Stefano
- Bucciantini, Niccolò
- Reynoso, Estela
- Moffett, David
- Soffitta, Paolo
- Swartz, Doug
- Kaaret, Philip
- Baldini, Luca
- Costa, Enrico
- Ng, C.-Y.
- Kim, Dawoon E.
- Doroshenko, Victor
- Ehlert, Steven R.
- Heyl, Jeremy
- Marin, Frédéric
- Mizuno, Tsunefumi
- Pesce-Rollins, Melissa
- Sgrò, Carmelo
- Tamagawa, Toru
- Weisskopf, Martin C.
- Xie, Fei
- Agudo, Iván
- Antonelli, Lucio A.
- Bachetti, Matteo
- Baumgartner, Wayne H.
- Bellazzini, Ronaldo
- Bianchi, Stefano
- Bongiorno, Stephen D.
- Bonino, Raffaella
- Brez, Alessandro
- Capitanio, Fiamma
- Castellano, Simone
- Cavazzuti, Elisabetta
- Chen, Chien-Ting
- Ciprini, Stefano
- De Rosa, Alessandra
- Del Monte, Ettore
- Di Gesu, Laura
- Di Lalla, Niccolò
- Di Marco, Alessandro
- Donnarumma, Immacolata
- Dovčiak, Michal
- Enoto, Teruaki
- Evangelista, Yuri
- Fabiani, Sergio
- Garcia, Javier A.1
- Gunji, Shuichi
- Hayashida, Kiyoshi
- Iwakiri, Wataru
- Jorstad, Svetlana G.
- Kislat, Fabian
- Karas, Vladimir
- Kitaguchi, Takao
- Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J.
- Krawczynski, Henric
- La Monaca, Fabio
- Latronico, Luca
- Liodakis, Ioannis
- Maldera, Simone
- Manfreda, Alberto
- Marinucci, Andrea
- Marscher, Alan P.
- Marshall, Herman L.
- Matt, Giorgio
- Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki
- Muleri, Fabio
- Negro, Michela
- O'Dell, Stephen L.
- Omodei, Nicola
- Oppedisano, Chiara
- Papitto, Alessandro
- Pavlov, George G.
- Peirson, Abel L.
- Perri, Matteo
- Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier
- Pilia, Maura
- Possenti, Andrea
- Poutanen, Juri
- Puccetti, Simonetta
- Ramsey, Brian D.
- Rankin, John
- Ratheesh, Ajay
- Roberts, Oliver
- Romani, Roger W.
- Spandre, Gloria
- Tavecchio, Fabrizio
- Taverna, Roberto
- Tawara, Yuzuru
- Tennant, Allyn F.
- Thomas, Nicholas E.
- Tombesi, Francesco
- Trois, Alessio
- Tsygankov, Sergey S.
- Turolla, Roberto
- Wu, Kinwah
- Zane, Silvia
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Acknowledgement
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a joint US and Italian mission. The US contribution is supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and led and managed by its Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), with industry partner Ball Aerospace (contract NNM15AA18C). The Italian contribution is supported by the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, ASI) through contract ASI-OHBI-2017-12-I.0, agreements ASI-INAF-2017-12-H0 and ASI-INFN-2017.13-H0, and its Space Science Data Center (SSDC) and by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy. This research used data products provided by the IXPE Team (MSFC, SSDC, INAF, and INFN) and distributed with additional software tools by the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). P.Z. acknowledges the support from NSFC grant No. 12273010 and Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) Veni Fellowship grant No. 639.041.647. C.-Y.N. and Y.J.Y. are supported by a GRF grant of the Hong Kong Government under HKU 17305419. N.B. was supported by the INAF MiniGrant "PWNnumpol—Numerical Studies of Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Light of IXPE."
Software References
ixpeobssim (vers. 30.0; Baldini et al. 2022), DS9 (Joye & Mandel 2003; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 2000), SAS (SAS Development Team 2014), Xspec (vers. 12.9.0u; Arnaud 1996)
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- 1538-4357
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NNM15AA18C
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
- ASI-OHBI-2017-12-I.0
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
- ASI-INAF-2017-12-H0
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
- ASI-INFN-2017.13-H0
- National Institute for Astrophysics
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- 12273010
- Dutch Research Council
- 639.041.647
- Government of Hong Kong
- HKU 17305419
- Caltech groups
- Space Radiation Laboratory