Phase-resolved Crab Studies with a Cryogenic TES Spectrophotometer

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2001-08-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108240v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 10 figures -- to appear in ApJ V562

Scientific paper

10.1086/323874

We are developing time- and energy-resolved near-IR/optical/UV photon detectors based on sharp superconducting-normal transition edges in thin films. We report observations of the Crab pulsar made during prototype testing at the McDonald 2.7m telescope with a fiber-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) system. These data show substantial (d[alpha]~0.3), rapid variations in the spectral index through the pulse profile, with a strong phase-varying IR break across our energy band. These variations correlate with X-ray spectral variations, but no single synchrotron population can account for the full Spectral Energy Distribution (SED). We also describe test spectrophotopolarimetry observations probing the energy dependence of the polarization sweep; this may provide a new key to understanding the radiating particle population.

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