Improved Measurements of the IXPE Crab Polarization

X-ray polarization from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) provides an important new probe of the geometry of the pulsar emission zone and of particle acceleration in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula. However, with IXPE's modest ∼20″–30″ spatial resolution, separation of the pulsar...

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Main Authors: Josephine Wong, Roger W. Romani, Jack T. Dinsmore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acdc1d