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IXPE detection of polarized X-rays from magnetars and photon mode conversion at QED vacuum resonance.

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Published in 2022 at "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2216534120

Abstract: The recent observations of the anomalous X-ray pulsars 4U 0142+61 and 1RXS J170849.0-400910 by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) opened up a new avenue to study magnetars, neutron stars endowed with superstrong magnetic fields… read more here.

Keywords: vacuum; polarized rays; vacuum resonance; mode conversion ... See more keywords