Skip to content
DraconiticResearch
Search Sources API
201,818 studies31 sourcesUpdated 10 min ago
Peer-reviewedLicence not statedNature

Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar

  • R. J. Stewart1
  • Hoa Dinh Thi2
  • George A. Younes3,4
  • M. E. Lower5
  • Matthew G. Baring6
  • Michela Negro7
  • Fernando Camilo8
  • Joel B. Coley9,10
  • Teruaki Enoto11
  • Alice Kust Harding12
  • Wynn C. G. Ho13
  • Chin‐Ping Hu14
4 more authors
  • Philip Kaaret15
  • Paul Scholz16
  • Alex van Kooten17
  • Zorawar Wadiasingh18,19
19 affiliations
  1. 1Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. [email protected]
  2. 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. [email protected]
  3. 3Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA. [email protected]
  4. 4Center for Space Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore County, MD, USA. [email protected]
  5. 5Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. [email protected]
  6. 6Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. [email protected]
  7. 7Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
  8. 8South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
  9. 9CRESST/Mail Code 661, Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
  10. 10Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
  11. 11Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  12. 12Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
  13. 13Department of Physics and Astronomy, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, USA
  14. 14Department of Physics, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan
  15. 15NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
  16. 16Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  17. 17Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
  18. 18Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
  19. 19Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Open at sourcePDFDOICite

Related

  1. Extending the Pulsar radio population through Quantum Vacuum Cherenkov Emission
    Tales A. O. Gomes, Sergei V. Bulanov, Jaziel G. Coelho +3
    arXivPreprintCC BY 4.0Full textHigh-energy astrophysicsarXiv
  2. Persistent Radio Sources and Multiwavelength Counterparts of Fast Radio Bursts: Magnetar Wind Nebulae and Bow Shocks in Massive Binary Systems
    Z. Y. Zhao, Q. Wu, F. Y. Wang +1
    The Astrophysical JournalPeer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Full textHigh-energy astrophysicsCrossref
  3. Cosmic birefringence tomography with radio galaxies I: Testing birefringence solutions to the CMB-BAO tension
    Toshiya Namikawa, Fumihiro Naokawa, Richard Battye +1
    arXivPreprintCC BY 4.0Full textCosmologyarXiv
  4. Angular structure of finite-field vacuum birefringence in magnetars
    Shahram Abbassi, S. R. Valluri
    arXivPreprintarXiv licenceFull textHigh-energy astrophysicsarXiv
  5. Fast Radio Bursts from Induced Upscattering. I. Magnetar Polar Fireballs
    Rei Nishiura, Kunihito Ioka, Bing Zhang
    arXivPreprintCC0Full textHigh-energy astrophysicsPlasma physicsarXiv

Cite

BibTeXRIS
BibTeX
@article{stewart2026vacuum,
  title = {{Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar}},
  author = {R. J. Stewart and Hoa Dinh Thi and George A. Younes and M. E. Lower and Matthew G. Baring and Michela Negro and Fernando Camilo and Joel B. Coley and Teruaki Enoto and Alice Kust Harding and Wynn C. G. Ho and Chin‐Ping Hu and Philip Kaaret and Paul Scholz and Alex van Kooten and Zorawar Wadiasingh},
  journal = {Nature},
  year = {2026},
  month = aug,
  doi = {10.1038/s41586-026-10859-z},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19446},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar
AU  - R. J. Stewart
AU  - Hoa Dinh Thi
AU  - George A. Younes
AU  - M. E. Lower
AU  - Matthew G. Baring
AU  - Michela Negro
AU  - Fernando Camilo
AU  - Joel B. Coley
AU  - Teruaki Enoto
AU  - Alice Kust Harding
AU  - Wynn C. G. Ho
AU  - Chin‐Ping Hu
AU  - Philip Kaaret
AU  - Paul Scholz
AU  - Alex van Kooten
AU  - Zorawar Wadiasingh
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/08/05
JO  - Nature
DO  - 10.1038/s41586-026-10859-z
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19446
SN  - 0028-0836
SN  - 1476-4687
ER  -