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X-Ray Polarimetry Workshop SLAC, Stanford, California 9-11 February 2004 |
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Polarization Signatures of Magnetars and Strong Field Processes
Jeremy
Heyl
University of British Columbia
heyl@physics.ubc.ca
Jeremy S. Heyl, Nir Shaviv, Don Lloyd
I will outline the processes, mainly quantum electrodynamic in nature, that are important for the preservation and evolution of the polarization of X-ray radiation as it travels through the magnetospheres of strongly (and not so strongly) magnetized neutron stars. The signatures of these processes could be observed with the next generation of x-ray polarimeters.
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