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Photometry and Polarimetry of the Crab Pulsar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

N. Visvanathan*
Affiliation:
Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

Abstract

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Observational results are presented for the pulse component, the nebula component and the wisp component of the Crab Nebula. The pulsar polarization is separated from the background nebular polarization. The relation between the pulsar and the adjacent nebula is discussed.

Type
Session 2
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

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