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X-Ray Polarization of the Magnetar 1E 1841−045

  • Authors: Rachael Stewart, George A. Younes, Alice K. Harding, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Matthew G. Baring, Michela Negro, Tod E. Strohmayer, Wynn C. G. Ho, Mason Ng, Zaven Arzoumanian, Hoa Dinh Thi, Niccolò Di Lalla, Teruaki Enoto, Keith Gendreau, Chin-Ping Hu, Alex van Kooten, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Alexander McEwen

Rachael Stewart et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 985 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Top panel: Model photon spectra for O-mode (dashed lines) and X-mode (solid lines) modes from RICS (pink), splitting (purple), and pair synchrotron (green) radiation from a pair cascade from electrons on a closed magnetic field loop with ﹩{r}_{{\rm{\max }}}=6﹩ neutron star radii, surface magnetic field strength B = 32 Bcr, viewing angle, θv = 30°, scattering photons from the whole neutron star surface with temperature 5 × 106 K. Light lines are unattenuated spectra, and dark lines are attenuated (observed) spectra. The normalization is arbitrary. The solid black/red lines are the soft, hard, and total model fits of IXPE/NuSTAR data. The IXPE model has been multiplied by a factor of 1.4 to correct for the calibration uncertainty with NuSTAR. Bottom panel: polarization degree of the total attenuated spectrum.

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