IXPE view of the Crab pulsar following the 17 July and 6 August 2025 glitches
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| author | Soffitta, Paolo Bucciantini, Niccolò Wong, Josephine Caniulef, Denis Gonzalez Bachetti, Matteo Ferrazzoli, Riccardo Xie, Fei Costa, Enrico Pilia, Maura Cibrario, Nicolò Dinsmore, Jack T. Di Lalla, Niccolò Kaaret, Philip Liu, Kuan Mizuno, Tsunefumi Negro, Michela Ng, C. -Y. Omodei, Nicola Pagliarella, Simone Silvestri, Stefano Yang, Yi-Jung Weisskopf, Martin C. |
| author_facet | Soffitta, Paolo Bucciantini, Niccolò Wong, Josephine Caniulef, Denis Gonzalez Bachetti, Matteo Ferrazzoli, Riccardo Xie, Fei Costa, Enrico Pilia, Maura Cibrario, Nicolò Dinsmore, Jack T. Di Lalla, Niccolò Kaaret, Philip Liu, Kuan Mizuno, Tsunefumi Negro, Michela Ng, C. -Y. Omodei, Nicola Pagliarella, Simone Silvestri, Stefano Yang, Yi-Jung Weisskopf, Martin C. |
| contents | The Crab pulsar experienced two relatively small glitches separated by only 20 days in September and October 2025. IXPE observed the source twice, with delay times since the glitch epoch ranging between 35 and 75 days, depending on the observation. We carried out a multi-method analysis to investigate whether there is evidence for significant changes in the polarization properties of the pulsar, underlying possible variations in the pulsar magnetosphere itself following the glitches. Specifically, we performed: (1) phase-averaged polarimetry of the Crab pulsar before and after the glitches, following an approach similar to that adopted in 2019 by PolarLight, a non-imaging CubeSat-class photoelectric polarimeter which observed a change in the X-ray polarization within 100 days after a stronger glitch in July 2019; (2) a comparison, before and after the glitch, of phase-resolved X-ray polarimetry with IXPE, not possible with PolarLight. Furthermore, we investigated, by means of phase-resolved optical (OPTIMA) polarimetry, whether a significant change in the X-to-optical lag was present in the data before and after the glitch. We find no evidence of a change in the polarization for the pulsar emission before and after the glitch, We use the upper limits obtained to estimate the maximum change in magnetic obliquity allowed by the data, using the standard rotating vector model and assuming that the glitch is due to a neutron-star quake. We constrain this maximum change to be no greater than $\pm4^{o}$ at the 95\% confidence level. |
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| spellingShingle | IXPE view of the Crab pulsar following the 17 July and 6 August 2025 glitches Soffitta, Paolo Bucciantini, Niccolò Wong, Josephine Caniulef, Denis Gonzalez Bachetti, Matteo Ferrazzoli, Riccardo Xie, Fei Costa, Enrico Pilia, Maura Cibrario, Nicolò Dinsmore, Jack T. Di Lalla, Niccolò Kaaret, Philip Liu, Kuan Mizuno, Tsunefumi Negro, Michela Ng, C. -Y. Omodei, Nicola Pagliarella, Simone Silvestri, Stefano Yang, Yi-Jung Weisskopf, Martin C. High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The Crab pulsar experienced two relatively small glitches separated by only 20 days in September and October 2025. IXPE observed the source twice, with delay times since the glitch epoch ranging between 35 and 75 days, depending on the observation. We carried out a multi-method analysis to investigate whether there is evidence for significant changes in the polarization properties of the pulsar, underlying possible variations in the pulsar magnetosphere itself following the glitches. Specifically, we performed: (1) phase-averaged polarimetry of the Crab pulsar before and after the glitches, following an approach similar to that adopted in 2019 by PolarLight, a non-imaging CubeSat-class photoelectric polarimeter which observed a change in the X-ray polarization within 100 days after a stronger glitch in July 2019; (2) a comparison, before and after the glitch, of phase-resolved X-ray polarimetry with IXPE, not possible with PolarLight. Furthermore, we investigated, by means of phase-resolved optical (OPTIMA) polarimetry, whether a significant change in the X-to-optical lag was present in the data before and after the glitch. We find no evidence of a change in the polarization for the pulsar emission before and after the glitch, We use the upper limits obtained to estimate the maximum change in magnetic obliquity allowed by the data, using the standard rotating vector model and assuming that the glitch is due to a neutron-star quake. We constrain this maximum change to be no greater than $\pm4^{o}$ at the 95\% confidence level. |
| title | IXPE view of the Crab pulsar following the 17 July and 6 August 2025 glitches |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23808 |