@article{520d1bf28e26461690179bdc62c03094,
title = "Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector",
abstract = "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 data analysis of the SGD observation, SGD background estimation, and 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%±10.6%), and the polarization angle is 110°.7 + 13°.2/-13°.0 in the energy range of 60.160 keV (the errors correspond to the 1 σ 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 ± 0°.0.1.",
author = "{Hitomi Collaboration} and Felix Aharonian and Hiroki Akamatsu and Fumie Akimoto and Allen, {Steven W.} and Lorella Angelini and Marc Audard and Hisamitsu Awaki and Magnus Axelsson and Aya Bamba and Bautz, {Marshall W.} and Roger Blandford and Brenneman, {Laura W.} and Brown, {Gregory V.} and Esra Bulbul and Cackett, {Edward M.} and Maria Chernyakova and Chiao, {Meng P.} and Coppi, {Paolo S.} and Elisa Costantini and {De Plaa}, Jelle and {De Vries}, {Cor P.} and {Den Herder}, {Jan Willem} and Chris Done and Tadayasu Dotani and Ken Ebisawa and Eckart, {Megan E.} and Teruaki Enoto and Yuichiro Ezoe and Fabian, {Andrew C.} and Carlo Ferrigno and Foster, {Adam R.} and Ryuichi Fujimoto and Yasushi Fukazawa and Akihiro Furuzawa and Massimiliano Galeazzi and Gallo, {Luigi C.} and Poshak Gandhi and Margherita Giustini and Andrea Goldwurm and Liyi Gu and Matteo Guainazzi and Yoshito Haba and Kouichi Hagino and Kenji Hamaguchi and Harrus, {Ilana M.} and Isamu Hatsukade and Katsuhiro Hayashi and Takayuki Hayashi and Kiyoshi Hayashida and Hiraga, {Junko S.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank all the JAXA members who have contributed to the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) project. All US members gratefully acknowledge support through the NASA Science Mission Directorate. The Stanford and SLAC members acknowledge support via DoE contract to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory DE-AC3-76SF00515 and NASA grant NNX15AM19G. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the US DoE by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. Support from the European Space Agency is gratefully acknowledged. The French members acknowledge support from CNES, the Centre National d{\textquoteright}{\'E}tudes Spatiales. SRON is supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The Swiss team acknowledges the support of the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). The Canadian Space Agency is acknowledged for the support of the Canadian members. We acknowledge support from JSPS/MEXT KAKENHI grant numbers 15H00773, 15H00785, 15H02090, 15H03639, 15H05438, 15K05107, 15K17610, 15K17657, 16J02333, 16H00949, 16H06342, 16K05295, 16K05296, 16K05300, 16K13787, 16K17672, 16K17673, 17H02864, 17K05393, 17J04197, 21659292, 23340055, 23340071, 23540280, 24105007, 24244014. 24540232, 25105516, 25109004, 25247028, 25287042, 25287059, 25400236, 25800119, 26109506, 26220703, 26400228, 26610047, 26800102, 26800160, JP15H02070, JP15H03641, JP15H03642, JP15H06896, JP16H03983, JP16K05296, JP16K05309, and JP16K17667. The following NASA grants are acknowledged: NNX15AC76G, NNX15AE16G, NNX15AK71G, NNX15AU54G, NNX15AW94G, and NNG15PP48P to Eureka Scientific. This work was partly supported by Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers, MEXT, Japan, and also by the Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists. H. Akamatsu acknowledges the support of NWO via a Veni grant. C. Done acknowledges STFC funding under grant ST/L00075X/1. A. Fabian and C. Pinto acknowledge ERC Advanced Grant 340442. P. Gandhi acknowledges a JAXA International Top Young Fellowship and UK Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) grant ST/J003697/2. Y. Ichinohe, K. Nobukawa, and H. Seta are supported by the Research Fellow of JSPS for Young Scientists program. N. Kawai is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “New Developments in Astrophysics Through Multi-Messenger Observations of Gravitational Wave Sources.” S. Kitamoto is partially supported by the MEXT Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2014– 2018. B. McNamara and S. Safi-Harb acknowledge support from NSERC. T. Dotani, T. Takahashi, T. Tamagawa, M. Tsujimoto, and Y. Uchiyama acknowledge support from the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Nuclear Matter in Neutron Stars Investigated by Experiments and Astronomical Observations.” N. Werner is supported by the Lend{\"u}let LP2016-11 grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. D. Wilkins is supported by NASA through Einstein Fellowship grant number PF6-170160, awarded by the Chandra X-ray Center and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under contract NAS8-03060. Funding Information: We acknowledge contributions by many companies, including in particular NEC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Hamamatsu Photonics, Acrorad, Ideas, SUPER RESIN, and OKEN. We acknowledge strong support from the following engineers. JAXA/ISAS: Chris Baluta, Nobutaka Bando, Atsushi Harayama, Kazuyuki Hirose, Kosei Ishimura, Naoko Iwata, Taro Kawano, Shigeo Kawasaki,",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/pasj/psy118",
language = "English",
volume = "70",
journal = "Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan",
issn = "0004-6264",
publisher = "Astronomical Society of Japan",
number = "6",
}