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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 397, Issue 1, Pages 103-123Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14935.x
Keywords
radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; instrumentation: polarimeters; techniques: polarimetric; pulsars: general; pulsars: individual: the Crab pulsar
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- EU [MTKD-CT-2006 039965]
- Polish grant [N203 017 31/2872]
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The linear polarization of the Crab pulsar and its close environment was derived from observations with the high-speed photopolarimeter Optical Pulsar TIMing Analyser at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope in the optical spectral range (400-750 nm). Time resolution as short as 11 mu s, which corresponds to a phase interval of 1/3000 of the pulsar rotation, and high statistics allow the derivation of polarization details never achieved before. The degree of optical polarization and the position angle correlate in surprising details with the light curves at optical wavelengths and at radio frequencies of 610 and 1400 MHz. Our observations show that there exists a subtle connection between presumed non-coherent (optical) and coherent (radio) emissions. This finding supports previously detected correlations between the optical intensity of the Crab and the occurrence of giant radio pulses. Interpretation of our observations requires more elaborate theoretical models than those currently available in the literature.
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