List of works - Francesco Tombesi

The ASTRO-H Mission

The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory

The ASTRO-H X-ray astronomy satellite

Hitomi X-ray observation of the pulsar wind nebula G21.5−0.9

scientific article published in January 2018

Variable Nature of Magnetically Driven Ultra-fast Outflows

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Hitomi X-ray studies of giant radio pulses from the Crab pulsar*

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer

The NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku View of A3395 at the Intercluster Filament Interface

scientific article published in May 2022

Hitomi observations of the LMC SNR N 132 D: Highly redshifted X-ray emission from iron ejecta*

Magnetic Structures and Turbulence in SN 1006 Revealed with Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry

Tracking the X-Ray Polarization of the Black Hole Transient Swift J1727.8–1613 during a State Transition

The X-Ray Halo Scaling Relations of Supermassive Black Holes

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Exploring the multiphase medium in MKW 08: from the central active galaxy up to cluster scales

scientific article published in September 2019

When the Milky Way hosted a quasar

IXPE and Multiwavelength Observations of Blazar PG 1553+113 Reveal an Orphan Optical Polarization Swing

IXPE observation confirms a high spin in the accreting black hole 4U 1957+115

scholarly article

X-Ray Polarization of the Eastern Lobe of SS 433

Search for thermal X-ray features from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi soft X-ray spectrometer*

Discovery of X-ray polarization angle rotation in the jet from blazar Mrk 421

Polarization Properties of the Weakly Magnetized Neutron Star X-Ray Binary GS 1826–238 in the High Soft State

X-Ray Polarization of the Black Hole X-Ray Binary 4U 1630–47 Challenges the Standard Thin Accretion Disk Scenario

Discovery of X-Ray Polarization from the Black Hole Transient Swift J1727.8−1613

First Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Accreting Neutron Star 4U 1820−303

The X-Ray Polarimetry View of the Accreting Pulsar Cen X-3

X-Ray Polarization of BL Lacertae in Outburst

Structured ionized winds shooting out from a quasar at relativistic speeds

scientific article published on 14 May 2025

Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector†

The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) x-ray astronomy satellite

The LOFT mission concept: a status update

article

The Large Observatory for x-ray timing

article

Complex rotational dynamics of the neutron star in Hercules X-1 revealed by X-ray polarization

Atmospheric gas dynamics in the Perseus cluster observed with Hitomi*

Discovery of a strong rotation of the X-ray polarization angle in the galactic burster GX 13+1

Linking macro-, meso- and microscales in multiphase AGN feeding and feedback

scientific article published in January 2020

X-Ray Polarization Observations of BL Lacertae

Variability of X-ray polarization of Cyg X-1

A Strong X-Ray Polarization Signal from the Magnetar 1RXS J170849.0-400910

A Two-week IXPE Monitoring Campaign on Mrk 421

Observations of Low and Intermediate Spectral Peak Blazars with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer

High Optical-to-X-Ray Polarization Ratio Reveals Compton Scattering in BL Lacertae’s Jet

Highly Significant Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Brightest Accreting Neutron Star Sco X-1

IXPE observation of PKS 2155–304 reveals the most highly polarized blazar

An IXPE-led X-Ray Spectropolarimetric Campaign on the Soft State of Cygnus X-1: X-Ray Polarimetric Evidence for Strong Gravitational Lensing

NICER observations reveal that the X-ray transient MAXI J1348−630 is a black hole X-ray binary

scientific article published on 19 September 2020

Atomic data and spectral modeling constraints from high-resolution X-ray observations of the Perseus cluster with Hitomi*

X-ray polarization measurement of the gold standard of radio-quiet active galactic nuclei: NGC 1068

IXPE Observations of the Quintessential Wind-accreting X-Ray Pulsar Vela X-1

X-Ray Polarimetry Reveals the Magnetic-field Topology on Sub-parsec Scales in Tycho’s Supernova Remnant

Observations of 4U 1626–67 with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer

The IXPE View of GRB 221009A

scientific article published in March 2023

List of works by Francesco Tombesi