Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector
Creators: name: Hitomi Collaboration
name: Aharonian, Felix
name: Akamatsu, Hiroki
name: Akimoto, Fumie
name: Allen, Steven W.
name: Angelini, Lorella
name: Audard, Marc
name: Awaki, Hisamitsu
name: Axelsson, Magnus
name: Bamba, Aya
name: Bautz, Marshall W.
name: Blandford, Roger
name: Brenneman, Laura W.
name: Brown, Gregory V.
name: Bulbul, Esra
name: Cackett, Edward M.
name: Chernyakova, Maria
name: Chiao, Meng P.
name: Coppi, Paolo S.
name: Costantini, Elisa
name: de Plaa, Jelle
name: de Vries, Cor P.
name: Herder, Jan-Willem den
name: Done, Chris
name: Dotani, Tadayasu
name: Ebisawa, Ken
name: Eckart, Megan E.
name: Enoto, Teruaki
name: Ezoe, Yuichiro
name: Fabian, Andrew C.
name: Ferrigno, Carlo
name: Foster, Adam R.
name: Fujimoto, Ryuichi
name: Fukazawa, Yasushi
name: Furuzawa, Akihiro
name: Galeazzi, Massimiliano
name: Gallo, Luigi C.
name: Gandhi, Poshak
name: Giustini, Margherita
name: Goldwurm, Andrea
name: Gu, Liyi
name: Guainazzi, Matteo
name: Haba, Yoshito
name: Hagino, Kouichi
name: Hamaguchi, Kenji
name: Harrus, Ilana M.
name: Hatsukade, Isamu
name: Hayashi, Katsuhiro
name: Hayashi, Takayuki
name: Hayashida, Kiyoshi
name: Hiraga, Junko S.
name: Hornschemeier, Ann
name: Hoshino, Akio
name: Hughes, John P.
name: Ichinohe, Yuto
name: Iizuka, Ryo
name: Inoue, Hajime
name: Inoue, Yoshiyuki
name: Ishida, Manabu
name: Ishikawa, Kumi
name: Ishisaki, Yoshitaka
name: Iwai, Masachika
name: Kaastra, Jelle
name: Kallman, Tim
name: Kamae, Tsuneyoshi
name: Kataoka, Jun
name: Katsuda, Satoru
name: Kawai, Nobuyuki
name: Kelley, Richard L.
name: Kilbourne, Caroline A.
name: Kitaguchi, Takao
name: Kitamoto, Shunji
name: Kitayama, Tetsu
name: Kohmura, Takayoshi
name: Kokubun, Motohide
name: Koyama, Katsuji
name: Koyama, Shu
name: Kretschmar, Peter
name: Krimm, Hans A.
name: Kubota, Aya
name: Kunieda, Hideyo
name: Laurent, Philippe
name: Lee, Shiu-Hang
name: Leutenegger, Maurice A.
name: Limousin, Olivier
name: Loewenstein, Michael
name: Long, Knox S.
name: Lumb, David
name: Madejski, Greg
name: Maeda, Yoshitomo
name: Maier, Daniel
name: Makishima, Kazuo
name: Markevitch, Maxim
name: Matsumoto, Hironori
name: Matsushita, Kyoko
name: McCammon, Dan
name: McNamara, Brian R.
name: Mehdipour, Missagh
name: Miller, Eric D.
name: Miller, Jon M.
name: Mineshige, Shin
name: Mitsuda, Kazuhisa
name: Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki
name: Miyazawa, Takuya
name: Mizuno, Tsunefumi
name: Mori, Hideyuki
name: Mori, Koji
name: Mukai, Koji
name: Murakami, Hiroshi
name: Mushotzky, Richard F.
name: Nakagawa, Takao
name: Nakajima, Hiroshi
name: Nakamori, Takeshi
name: Nakashima, Shinya
name: Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
name: Nobukawa, Kumiko K.
name: Nobukawa, Masayoshi
name: Noda, Hirofumi
name: Odaka, Hirokazu
name: Ohashi, Takaya
name: Ohno, Masanori
name: Okajima, Takashi
name: Ota, Naomi
name: Ozaki, Masanobu
name: Paerels, Frits
name: Paltani, Stephane
name: Petre, Robert
name: Pinto, Ciro
name: Porter, Frederick S.
name: Pottschmidt, Katja
name: Reynolds, Christopher S.
name: Safi-Harb, Samar
name: Saito, Shinya
name: Sakai, Kazuhiro
name: Sasaki, Toru
name: Sato, Goro
name: Sato, Kosuke
name: Sato, Rie
name: Sawada, Makoto
name: Schartel, Norbert
name: Serlemtsos, Peter J.
name: Seta, Hiromi
name: Shidatsu, Megumi
name: Simionescu, Aurora
name: Smith, Randall K.
name: Soong, Yang
name: Stawarz, Lukasz
name: Sugawara, Yasuharu
name: Sugita, Satoshi
name: Szymkowiak, Andrew
name: Tajima, Hiroyasu
name: Takahashi, Hiromitsu
name: Takahashi, Tadayuki
name: Takeda, Shin'ichiro
name: Takei, Yoh
name: Tamagawa, Toru
name: Tamura, Takayuki
name: Tanaka, Takaaki
name: Tanaka, Yasuo
name: Tanaka, Yasuyuki T.
name: Tashiro, Makoto S.
name: Tawara, Yuzuru
name: Terada, Yukikatsu
name: Terashima, Yuichi
name: Tombesi, Francesco
name: Tomida, Hiroshi
name: Tsuboi, Yohko
name: Tsujimoto, Masahiro
name: Tsunemi, Hiroshi
name: Tsuru, Takeshi Go
name: Uchida, Hiroyuki
name: Uchiyama, Hideki
name: Uchiyama, Yasunobu
name: Ueda, Shutaro
name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
name: Uno, Shin'ichiro
name: Urry, C. Megan
name: Ursino, Eugenio
name: Watanabe, Shin
name: Werner, Norbert
name: Wilkins, Dan R.
name: Williams, Brian J.
name: Yamada, Shinya
name: Yamaguchi, Hiroya
name: Yamaoka, Kazutaka
name: Yamasaki, Noriko Y.
name: Yamauchi, Makoto
name: Yamauchi, Shigeo
name: Yaqoob, Tahir
name: Yatsu, Yoichi
name: Yonetoku, Daisuke
name: Zhuravleva, Irina
name: Zoghbi, Abderahmen
name: Uchida, Yuusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) observation of the Crab nebula. The main part of SGD is a Compton camera, which in addition to being a spectrometer, is capable of measuring polarization of gamma-ray photons. The Crab nebula is one of the brightest X-ray / gamma-ray sources on the sky, and, the only source from which polarized X-ray photons have been detected. SGD observed the Crab nebula during the initial test observation phase of Hitomi. We performed the data analysis of the SGD observation, the SGD background estimation and the SGD Monte Carlo simulations, and, successfully detected polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with only about 5 ks exposure time. The obtained polarization fraction of the phase-integrated Crab emission (sum of pulsar and nebula emissions) is (22.1 $\pm$ 10.6)% and, the polarization angle is 110.7$^o$ + 13.2 / $-$13.0$^o$ in the energy range of 60--160 keV (The errors correspond to the 1 sigma deviation). The confidence level of the polarization detection was 99.3%. The polarization angle measured by SGD is about one sigma deviation with the projected spin axis of the pulsar, 124.0$^o$ $\pm$0.1$^o$.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in PASJ