Crab Pulsar Polarization Unified

As reported in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2025A&A…693A.152G), analysis of IXPE observations and a comparison with visual measurements shows that the polarization of the X-ray emission from the Crab Pulsars traces the same path as the polarization in the visual as the star rotates. However, interestingly the X-ray polarization lags in its trip relative to the visual in the Crab interpulse, but not in the main pulse, revealing that the emission in these two phases originates in very different regions of the pulsar magnetosphere.

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