Shedding new light on the Crab with polarized X-rays
Abstract Strong magnetic fields, synchrotron emission, and Compton scattering are omnipresent in compact celestial X-ray sources. Emissions in the X-ray energy band are consequently expected to be linearly polarized. X-ray polarimetry provides a unique diagnostic to study the location and fundamenta...
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Nature Portfolio
2017
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