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Magnetic-field structure of the Crab pulsar wind nebula revealed with IXPE

Weisskopf, Martin C.; Slane, Patrick; Mizuno, Tsunefumi +5 more

We report a detailed study of the magnetic-field structure of the Crab pulsar wind nebula, using the X-ray polarization data in 2-8 keV obtained with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. Contamination of the data for the nebula region by the pulsar emission was removed through application of a stringent pulsation phase cut, extracting a phase r…