Energy-resolved polarisation study of the Crab Nebula with IXPE
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| author | Wei, Wenhao Xie, Fei La Monaca, Fabio Deng, Wei Ge, Mingyu Liu, Kuan Zuo, Chao Chen, Wei |
| author_facet | Wei, Wenhao Xie, Fei La Monaca, Fabio Deng, Wei Ge, Mingyu Liu, Kuan Zuo, Chao Chen, Wei |
| contents | This work presents a new detailed study on the energy-dependent variation in the X-ray polarisation of the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), obtained using data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). For the entire PWN, we observed a linear variation in polarisation degree (PD), and detected the rotation of the polarisation angle (PA) with the energy at higher than 99.9999\% of the confidence level. This energy-dependent polarisation variation is in line with the indication found in Vela PWN by IXPE, and it can be interpreted as the emitting region of the polarised photons shrinks with increasing energy, leading to higher PD because they are less influenced by the turbulence of the magnetic field. We compared the IXPE polarisation results with those of other hard X-ray/gamma observatories (PoGO+, Intregral, AstroSat) for the PWN, finding the same trend from soft-X to hard-X with the PD increasing with the energy and the PA approaching the pulsar's spin axis. In fact, in this wide energy band, the fitting results show an energy trend for the PA compatible with the estimated pulsar's spin axis within 3$σ$ of confidence level. |
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| spellingShingle | Energy-resolved polarisation study of the Crab Nebula with IXPE Wei, Wenhao Xie, Fei La Monaca, Fabio Deng, Wei Ge, Mingyu Liu, Kuan Zuo, Chao Chen, Wei High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena This work presents a new detailed study on the energy-dependent variation in the X-ray polarisation of the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), obtained using data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). For the entire PWN, we observed a linear variation in polarisation degree (PD), and detected the rotation of the polarisation angle (PA) with the energy at higher than 99.9999\% of the confidence level. This energy-dependent polarisation variation is in line with the indication found in Vela PWN by IXPE, and it can be interpreted as the emitting region of the polarised photons shrinks with increasing energy, leading to higher PD because they are less influenced by the turbulence of the magnetic field. We compared the IXPE polarisation results with those of other hard X-ray/gamma observatories (PoGO+, Intregral, AstroSat) for the PWN, finding the same trend from soft-X to hard-X with the PD increasing with the energy and the PA approaching the pulsar's spin axis. In fact, in this wide energy band, the fitting results show an energy trend for the PA compatible with the estimated pulsar's spin axis within 3$σ$ of confidence level. |
| title | Energy-resolved polarisation study of the Crab Nebula with IXPE |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09501 |