{"paper":{"title":"White Paper for Blazar Observations with a GEMS-like X-ray Polarimetry Mission","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.CO"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Alice Harding (NASA/GSFC), Craig Markwardt (NASA/GSFC), Dong Lai (Cornell), Finland), Henric Krawczynski (Wash. Univ. in St. Louis), Herman Marshall (MIT), India), Japan), Jean Swank (NASA/GSFC), Jeffrey Martoff (Temple), Jeffrey Scargle (NASA/ARC), Jeremy Schnittman (NASA/GSFC), Jessie Dotson (NASA/ARC), Joanne Hill (NASA/GSFC), Julian Krolik (JHU), Juri Poutanen (U. Oula, Keith Jahoda (NASA/GSFC), Kevin Black (NASA/GSFC), Lorella Angelini (NASA/GSFC), Matthew Baring (Rice), Peter Serlemitsos (NASA/GSFC), Phillip Kaaret (U. Iowa), Pranab Ghosh (TIFR, Robert Petre (NASA/GSFC), Robin Morris (NASA/ARC), Stephen Reynolds (NCSU), Takashi Okajima (NASA/GSFC), Tim Kallman (NASA/GSFC), Tod Strohmayer (NASA/GSFC), Toru Tamagawa (Riken U., Wayne Baumgartner (NASA/GSFC), Yang Soong (NASA/GSFC), Yuzuru Tawara (Nagoya U.","submitted_at":"2013-03-28T16:01:17Z","abstract_excerpt":"In this document, we describe the scientific potential of blazar observations with a X-ray polarimetry mission like GEMS (Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX). We describe five blazar science investigations that such a mission would enable: (i) the structure and the role of magnetic fields in AGN jets, (ii) analysis of the polarization of the synchrotron X-ray emission from AGN jets, (iii) discrimination between synchrotron self-Compton and external Compton models for blazars with inverse Compton emission in the X-ray band, (iv) a precision study of the polarization properties of the X-ray emis"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1303.7158","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}