Optical polarisation of the Crab pulsar: precision measurements and comparison to the radio emission

Details Optical polarisation of the Crab pulsar: precision measurements and comparison to the radio emission Optical polarisation of the Crab pulsar: precision measurements and comparison to the radio emission

2009-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/0901.4559v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

21 pages, 13 figures, uses AMS.sty, mn2e.cls, mn2e.bst and natbib.sty, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14935.x

The linear polarisation of the Crab pulsar and its close environment was derived from observations with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope in the optical spectral range (400 - 750 nm). Time resolution as short as 11 microseconds, which corresponds to a phase interval of 1/3000 of the pulsar rotation, and high statistics allow the derivation of polarisation details never achieved before. The degree of optical polarisation and the position angle correlate in surprising details with the light curves at optical wavelengths and at radio frequencies of 610 and 1400 MHz. Our observations show that there exists a subtle connection between presumed non-coherent (optical) and coherent (radio) emissions. This finding supports previously detected correlations between the optical intensity of the Crab and the occurrence of giant radio pulses. Interpretation of our observations require more elaborate theoretical models than those currently available in the literature.

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