Polarized blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Agudo, Andrei V. Berdyugin, Maria I. Bernardos, Giacomo Bonnoli, George A. Borman, Carolina Casadio, Vı́ctor Casanova, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Nicole R. Cavero, Laura Di Gesu, Niccoló Di Lalla, Immacolata Donnarumma, Steven R. Ehlert, Manel Errando, Juan Escudero, Maya Garćıa-Comas, Beatriz Aǵıs-González, César Husillos, Jenni Jormanainen, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Masato Kagitani, Evgenia N. Kopatskaya, Vadim Kravtsov, Henric Krawczynski, Elina Lindfors, Elena G. Larionova, Grzegorz M. Madejski, Frédéric Marin, Alessandro Marchini, Herman L. Marshall, Daria A. Morozova, Francesco Massaro, Joseph R. Masiero, Dimitri Mawet, Riccardo Middei, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Ioannis Myserlis, Michela Negro, Kari Nilsson, Stephen L. O’Dell, Nicola Omodei, Luigi Pacciani, Alessandro Paggi, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Abel L. Peirson, Matteo Perri, PierreOlivier Petrucci, Juri Poutanen, Simonetta Puccetti, Roger W. Romani, Takeshi Sakanoi, Sergey S. Savchenko, Alfredo Sota, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Samaporn Tinyanont, Andrey A. Vasiliev, Zachary R. Weaver, Alexey V. Zhovtan, Lucio A. Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Luca Baldini, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stefano Bianchi, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Niccoló Bucciantini, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone

L. A. Antonelli | A. L. Peirson | Javier A. García | B. Ramsey | S. Bongiorno | J. Masiero | D. Mawet | R. Romani | S. Tsygankov | J. Heyl | M. Weisskopf | J. Kolodziejczak | A. Rosa | R. Bellazzini | A. Brez | M. Millar-Blanchaer | M. Bachetti | A. Possenti | T. Tamagawa | G. Borman | S. Tinyanont | S. Ciprini | N. D. Lalla | M. Negro | N. Omodei | M. Perri | J. Poutanen | S. Bianchi | G. Matt | G. Panopoulou | C. Casadio | I. Myserlis | I. Liodakis | T. Mizuno | A. Berdyugin | J. Vink | A. Marscher | S. Jorstad | L. Latronico | G. Spandre | C. Oppedisano | S. Gunji | E. Monte | I. Donnarumma | Y. Evangelista | L. Pacciani | P. Soffitta | A. Trois | M. Errando | H. Krawczynski | T. Enoto | K. Hayashida | T. Kitaguchi | G. Madejski | I. Mitsuishi | S. O’Dell | Y. Tawara | F. Tombesi | F. Marin | F. Capitanio | W. Baumgartner | T. Sakanoi | G. Bonnoli | E. Lindfors | V. Karas | G. Pavlov | F. Muleri | L. Baldini | N. Bucciantini | M. Dovčiak | S. Fabiani | C. Sgro’ | F. Tavecchio | S. Zane | S. Puccetti | E. Cavazzuti | P. Slane | M. Pesce-Rollins | R. Turolla | K. Nilsson | A. Papitto | M. Pilia | R. Bonino | S. Maldera | V. Doroshenko | C. Husillos | A. Manfreda | R. Taverna | F. Massaro | A. Paggi | W. Iwakiri | A. Marchini | A. Vasiliev | J. García | B. Ag'is-Gonz'alez | A. De Rosa | E. Del Monte | A. Di Marco | M. Dovvciak | M. Bernardos | J. Jormanainen | I. Agudo | A. Tennant | M. Kagitani | V. Casanova | A. Sota | H. Marshall | E. Kopatskaya | D. Morozova | S. Savchenko | E. Larionova | F. Xie | P. Petrucci | L. D. Gesu | R. Middei | Laura Di Gesu | A. Marinucci | J. Rankin | S. Castellano | N. Di Lalla | R. Ferrazzoli | A. Ratheesh | Nicolas Thomas | Z. Weaver | A. Zhovtan | A. Marco | S. Ehlert | M. García‐Comas | F. L. Monaca | E. Costa | K. Wu | N. Cavero | J. Escudero | Maya Garc'ia-Comas | V. Kravtsov | S. Ng | Carmelo Sgr'o | F. La Monaca | N. Thomas | N. Rodriguez Cavero | L. Antonelli | A. Vasilyev | A. Peirson | L. Di Gesu

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