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Starquake ends hiatus in soft X-ray polarimetry

Authors :
Mózsi Kiss
Source :
Nature Astronomy. 4:450-451
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.

Abstract

Measurements with a CubeSat gas pixel detector reveal a change in the Crab pulsar polarization after a glitch in the spin period, suggesting that starquakes alter the magnetosphere.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics
Soft x ray
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Crab Pulsar
High-energy astronomy
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Polarimetry
Magnetosphere
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Hiatus
Polarization (waves)
01 natural sciences
0103 physical sciences
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Time domain astronomy

Details

ISSN :
23973366
Volume :
4
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature Astronomy
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........99afecd7d3f545f7343431fefbc089da
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1105-4
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